[U] the freedom to change facts, the normal rules of language, etc. in a special piece of writing or speech in order to achieve a particular effect:
He used a little poetic licence to embroider a good story.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for poetic licence is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is poetic licence a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, poetic licence is tagged as noun.
Does poetic licence appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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