Accentuation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of accentuating or of marking accent or stress in speech or writing; the state of being accented or accentuated. The mode of indicating accent; accentual notation. The act of emphasizing or laying stress; a bringing into prominence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
  • noun. Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
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  • noun. the act of giving special importance or significance to something
  • noun. the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
  • Word Usage
    "The Fallacy of Accent ([Greek: prosodía]) is neither more nor less than a mistake in Greek accentuation."
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    accent  action  emphasis  stress  
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