accentual

[ak-sen-choo-uh l]

adjective

of or relating to accent or stress.
Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

Origin of accentual

1600–10; < Latin accentu(s) (see accent) + -al¹

Related formsac·cen·tu·al·i·ty, nounac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverbnon·ac·cen·tu·al, adjectivenon·ac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for accentual

Contemporary Examples of accentual

Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.
Stars Who Can't Do Accents
Richard Rushfield
December 9, 2010

Historical Examples of accentual

There is no such thing as quantity except so far as it is accentual also.
Opuscula
Robert Gordon Latham
And he expounds the English accentual verse-system with clearness and vigor.
English Verse
Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
The series of values for the four accentual positions follows.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1
Various
For these, too, the general law observed in all accentual poetry holds good, viz.
A History of English Versification
Jakob Schipper
The main law for all accentual versification is this, that verse-accent must always coincide with word-accent.
A History of English Versification
Jakob Schipper

British Dictionary definitions for accentual

accentual

adjective

of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllablesCompare quantitative (def. 3)

Derived Formsaccentually, adverb

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