Sentence example with the word 'accentuation'

accentuation

Definition n. the use or application of an accent

Last update: June 30, 2015


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No longer armed or wearing their former singular dress, the remnant of them in Lebanon seems likely ere long to be assimilated to the "Osmanli" Moslems. Their feud with the Maronites, whose accentuation in the middle of the 19th century was largely due to the tergiversations of the ruling Shehab family, now reduced to low estate, is dying away, but they retain something of their old clan feeling and feudal organization, especially in Shuf.   [Please select]

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He answered with an accentuation of his usual refinement of enunciation and suavity of manner.   [Please select]

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"Certainly," she replied, briefly, with perhaps a slight accentuation of her maiden dignity.   [Please select]

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Pronunciation is the proper sounding of consonants, vowels and the accentuation of each syllable.   [Please select]

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The denial of the reciprocal dependence of matter and spirit leads to sharper accentuation of their common dependence upon God.   [Please select]

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The accentuation of a syllable tends to lengthen the time used in the pronunciation of that syllable, and so we call it long, although the sound of its vowel may be short.   [Please select]

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