caesura

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noun

1. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
- after an ominous caesura the preacher continued
• Derivationally related forms:
caesural
• Hypernyms:
pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
2. a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
• Derivationally related forms:
caesural
• Hypernyms:
prosody, inflection