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Accentuation

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ac·cen·tu·ate  ([image]k-s[image]n[image]ch[image]-[image]t[image])
tr.v. ac·cen·tu·at·ed, ac·cen·tu·at·ing, ac·cen·tu·ates
1. To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding" James Fallows.
2. To pronounce with a stress or accent.
3. To mark with an accent.
[Medieval Latin accentu[image]re, accentu[image]t-, from Latin accentus, accent; see accent.]
ac·cen[image]tu·a[image]tion n.
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Noun 1. accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
stress, accent, emphasis - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
2. Accentuationaccentuation - the act of giving special importance or significance to something
accenting, emphasizing
action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"


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The origin of the Chinese tone is not a poetical one, but is undoubtedly due to the necessity of having some distinguishing method of accentuation in a language which only contains about four hundred different sounds.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations from Plautus, his favorite comic author.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
"I always thought," he said deliberately, with a certain accentuation of his flavouring of lisp, "that there was something the matter with his ears, from the way he covered them.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
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