1. plural of passus; sections or divisions of a long poem, especially medieval alliterative verse
Usage: literary; archaic

Examples

• The scholar analyzed the different passuses of Piers Plowman.
• Each of the poem’s passuses dealt with a different moral theme.
• The manuscript contained twenty passuses in total.
• Students struggled to understand the structure of the passuses.
• The editor numbered each of the passuses for reference.