KNE’ETRIBUTE. n.s. [knee and tribute.] Genuflection; wor-
ship or obeisance shown by kneeling.
Receive from us Kneetribute yet unpaid, prostration vile. Milton.
How many of these — perhaps especially of the ones you’ve chosen — are hapax legomena? Here it seems Milton is doing poetry by way of compound words, as Joyce would, or Hopkins, and to call this little poem a word seems untrue to the modern notion of a dictionary.
How many of these — perhaps especially of the ones you’ve chosen — are hapax legomena? Here it seems Milton is doing poetry by way of compound words, as Joyce would, or Hopkins, and to call this little poem a word seems untrue to the modern notion of a dictionary.