01 n. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
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A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
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A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation;
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Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.“The tender accent of a woman's cry.” — Prior.
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A word; a significant tone“Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.” — Dryden.
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Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.(Pros.)
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A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.(Mus.)
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A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y′, y″.(Math.)