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poetic licence

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Definition of poetic licence

noun

[mass noun]
  • the freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect: he used a little poetic licence to embroider a good tale

poetic licence in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of poetic licence in the US English dictionary