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Pyrrhic

adjective

Of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece.

Of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables.

Of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans).

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"Pyrrhic" Quotes from Famous Books

... after the first heavy rains had fallen the offensive ought to have been abandoned, and that it was a frightful error of judgment to ask masses of men to attack in conditions where they had not a dog's chance of victory, except at a cost which made it of Pyrrhic irony. ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

Words linked to "Pyrrhic" : ritual dancing, foot, metrical unit, dibrach, ceremonial dance, metrical foot, Pyrrhus, ritual dance