accentual
Americanadjective
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of or relating to accent or stress.
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Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.
adjective
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of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
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prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables Compare quantitative
Other Word Forms
- accentuality noun
- accentually adverb
- nonaccentual adjective
- nonaccentually adverb
Etymology
Origin of accentual
Example Sentences
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Eventually, he stirs in some variations of speed and volume, accentual bursts of sound, with deeper tones and crunch.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Otherwise, they dress like the British, their mother tongue is English, with an accentual twang of Indian and they are Christians.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2013
The importance of accentual treatment is now recognized in every modern method.
From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William
It has no exact correspondence in any classic meter; but it was early developed out of the accentual Latin measures which replaced quantitative meter in the middle ages.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
If this is done there will be in common English verse only two possible feet—the so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called Trochaic and Dactylic.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour
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