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Accentuation   Listen
Accentuation

noun
1.
The use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance.
2.
The act of giving special importance or significance to something.  Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing.





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"Accentuation" Quotes from Famous Books



... have got a very peculiar pronunciation, and you've made an extraordinary number of mistakes in accentuation and quantity, but you've read as if St. Paul ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham
... was an accentuation of a long series of spiteful injuries wrought him by the wrinkled old villain. Maso endured, hating the old man daily more and more; tried little tricks, little revenges, upon him, upset his baskets, hid his pipe; but they generally failed or recoiled ...
— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
... element of Style in singing. It is reinforced by Accent, which, as the name implies, is the accentuation of details that require to be brought into prominence. This ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... repeat I, again, with more accentuation than before, and with my usual happy command and ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... I call a friend!" he cried, ecstatically. "But won't you come in? He must be back in a moment. He surely would not break an appointment with you." The admiration latent in the accentuation of the last pronoun was ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various


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