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Example sentences for "accentuation"

Lexicographically close words:
accentual; accentuate; accentuated; accentuates; accentuating; accepi; accepit; accept; accepta; acceptability
  1. This accentuation of words on the latter syllable in rather unlikely cases, is a marked peculiarity of Hoccleve's verse.

  2. The accentuation of procuren on the o was at this time common; we even find the form proker (see Stratmann).

  3. The denial of the reciprocal dependence of matter and spirit leads to sharper accentuation of their common dependence upon God.

  4. It is superfluous to dwell on accentuation or pauses here, the line being commonly divided into two even parts, or, in truth, two six-syllabled lines.

  5. Long and short syllables alternately form the regular rhythm of this kind of verse; but occasional changes of rhythm and accentuation are used by all good writers.

  6. The general accentuation falls on the long syllables, the sense, however, always directing the reader to accent some single syllable specially in each line.

  7. His unusual pallor to-day had something luminous in it, and the features, in two days of suffering, had grown thinner with a sort of finely chiselled accentuation of their natural refinement.

  8. It had been a growth of strength, with an accentuation of wilfulness, and it had not been at all apparent at first.

  9. She trod over the tops of the deep drifts with an accentuation of her usual strong free step.

  10. She braced herself against the weight of the earthenware and balancing herself with a free swinging motion on her high-heeled shoes walked with an accentuation of her usual vigorous poise.

  11. I have already described the accentuation of geotropic curvature during the fall, and a flattening of curvature during the rise of temperature (p.

  12. The one accentuation is as good as the other.

  13. But a vulgar or affected intonation is clearly distinguishable, and ought to be clearly distinguished, from a national habit in the pronunciation of a given letter, or accentuation of a particular word, or class of words.

  14. But the larger our list of examples, the more capricious does our accentuation seem, the more evidently subject to mere accidents of fashion.

  15. At the same time, great pains have been taken to make the orthography and accentuation conform in all respects to the standard of the last edition of the Spanish Academy's Dictionary.

  16. The rhythmic accentuation is omitted, as being very uncertain in this passage.

  17. The general laws of Germanic accentuation of words, as existing in Old English, have been mentioned above (cf.

  18. With regard to their accentuation and metrical employment words of four syllables also fall into three classes: 1.

  19. The relation, however, between rhyme and alliteration and consequently the relation of the rhythmic accentuation of the words to their natural accentuation is less clear in the first stanza quoted above.

  20. As a rule, however, for these too the same level-stress accentuation must be assumed as for the rhyme-words of the first stanza of Golagras quoted above (p.

  21. We arrange them in five classes according to the number of syllables in the words; the principles of metrical accentuation not being precisely identical in the several classes.

  22. These laws of accentuation are strictly observed only in the older poetry; by the end of the tenth century, in Byrhtnoth, the Metres of Boethius and the Psalms, they are frequently neglected.

  23. As little do we admit the likelihood of such a rhythmic accentuation of these syllables when they occur in the middle of the line, generally of such lines as belong to the normal types mentioned above.

  24. One might almost say that Hamsun's vision has become social at last, were it not for his continued accentuation of the irreconcilable conflict between the individual and the group.

  25. That reluctant turning from the window, the accentuation in that movement of the shoulders was like a nod to me.

  26. Here we must needs wonder at the use of =work= as a transitive verb when the intransitive sense is so clearly demanded, and at the evident accentuation of =cabaret=.

  27. Impossible to put on paper her accentuation of this title.

  28. I beg your pardon," said Miss Elisabetha, with increased accentuation of her vowels.

  29. Accentuation of syllables, which seems, to answer the idea of long and short syllables in the dead languages, is the foundation of English, metre.

  30. The different accentuation of the old Anglo Saxon words, with those adopted from other tongues, affords uncommon variety and emphasis to the numbers of English verse.

  31. The publication of Christianity, with its propaganda of monotheism against the Roman world and its accentuation of faith against the ceremonialism of the Jewish church, resembled that of Luther's "gospel.

  32. Moreover, the accentuation of the virtues of thrift and industry, which made capitalism and Calvinism allies, but reflected the standards natural to the bourgeois class.

  33. Its accentuation is much like that in Beethoven's piano sonata (op.

  34. A subdued accentuation is got by the syncopation of the bass, and the yearning tenderness of the ending finishes an exquisite song.

  35. In Riemann the accentuation seems perverse, but there is no question as to its pedagogic value.

  36. Kullak is copious in his directions, and thinks the touch should be light and the hand gliding, and in the B major part "fiery, wilful accentuation of the inferior beats.

  37. His language and accentuation were so exceedingly singular, that I determined for once in my life to take notes of a conversation.

  38. This lack of accentuation of eroticism in Verhaeren's work does not by any means strike me as a weakness, a missing nerve in his artistic organism.

  39. And gradually the earnest, immovable uniformity of accentuation is changed into a more billowing, rhythmic fluidity.

  40. All this means an accentuation of consciousness; it means a turning in upon the individual's own attitudes, powers, wishes, etc.

  41. Hence, normally, there is an accentuation of personal consciousness whenever our instincts and ready formed habits find themselves blocked by novel conditions.

  42. They are not songs, but chants, whose purpose is to give accentuation and force to the exertion of united strength rather than to the expression of sentiment, and of which the rhythmical melody is the essential element.

  43. In Chapters XV, XVI, and XVII, accentuation has been placed on wood coloring.

  44. The accentuation of both surface and contour enrichment in a single design marks the height of bad taste in design.

  45. Sidenote: Accentuation of Functional Parts in Clay] The new element of enrichment consists of accenting by adding to the design a modeled rim and a base or foot, as it is technically known.

  46. We may now repeat the definition of harmony with the accentuation placed upon a certain wording directly applicable to small surfaces.

  47. It cannot be doubted that human perfection reaches its climax in the accentuation of the differences between the Sex-characteristics, physical and mental, of the one sex from those of the other.

  48. The accentuation of Male-traits now occurring occasions a recrudescence of primal instincts.

  49. Life demands from most of them over-accentuation and concentration of their male-abilities, in physical and mental specialisations.

  50. Two results only appear throughout his writings--first, the accentuation of belief; and secondly, the transference of many philosophical difficulties to language.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accentuation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; anapest; beat; cadence; caesura; counterpoint; dactyl; empathy; emphasis; foot; iambic; ictus; intonation; jingle; lilt; measure; meter; movement; numbers; period; prosody; quantity; rhythm; stress; swing; thesis; trochee