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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anacrusis /ˌanəˈkruːsɪs/

▶noun (pl. anacruses /-siːz/) Prosody one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a verse.

– origin C19: mod. L., from Gk anakrousis ‘prelude’, from ana- ‘up’ + krousis ‘striking’.

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