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The testimony to his own desirability comes via Hardwick’s versified letters or telephone talk:
. . .—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
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Etymology
Middle English versifien, borrowed from Anglo-French versifier, borrowed from Latin versificāre, from versusverse entry 1 + ificāre-ify
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