[f. prec.] The composition of sonnets; the result of this.
1797–1805. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., V. 34. I knew that he had touched up some pretty melancholy love-songs and sonneteerings.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! ii. He had talked over the art of sonneteering with Tasso.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., iv. (1890), 107. The vast outburst of sonneteering which … distinguished the middle of the last decade of the sixteenth century.
attrib. 1841. E. Fitzgerald, Lett. (1889), I. 72. Just when one’s sonnetteering age is departing.
1885. Athenæum, 6 June, 722/1. William Shakspeare … wrote sonneteering addresses to a young man.
