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Accented   /ˈæksɛntɪd/   Listen
verb
Accent  v. t.  (past & past part. accented; pres. part. accenting)  
1.
To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
2.
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.


adjective
accented  adj.  
1.
(Phonology) Having the main stress of a word; used of syllables
Synonyms: tonic (vs. atonic)
2.
Being pronounced with sterss; used of syllables
Synonyms: heavy, strong





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"Accented" Quotes from Famous Books



... cabin to a large party of boys, elderly women, and children, most of them visitors like myself, and all listening to a powerful-wristed youth happily playing, "You'll Come Back and Hang Around," with heavily accented rag-time, on ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
... divine Word we know that God desires this. Not only so, but God has expressed His desire in the gift of His Son. If we had any doubt, surely that might convince us. And I believe it will convince us yet. The doctrine of a universal atonement is now generally accented. Even Calvinists have declared almost unanimously that Christ died for the whole world. And if we had not that declaration in words, we have it even more emphatically in missionary enterprise. Still there is a remnant of the old belief that Christ died only for the sins of the elect. I believe the ...
— Love's Final Victory • Horatio
... a diaeresis in preeminent, and accented "e's in debris and denouement. These have ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... no better name has been found than that given it by Bishop Lowth more than a century and a half ago, "Parallelismus Membrorum."(41) Second, this rhythm of meaning is wedded to a rhythm of sound which is achieved by the observance of a varying proportion between stressed or heavily accented syllables and unstressed. That is clear even though we are unable to discriminate the proportion in every case or even to tell whether there were fixed rules for it; the vowel-system of our Hebrew text being possibly different ...
— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith
... strove to secure originality and to stimulate astonishment by bizarre modulations of accepted classic forms, by breaking the lines of architraves, combining angularities with curves, adopting a violently accented rhythm and a tortured multiplicity of parts, ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds


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