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versification

The English word “versification” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
  2. The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses

Etymology

From verse + -ification.

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