HOW TO PRONOUNCE
accentuation
/ˌækˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/
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What does accentuation mean?
noun
- A more distinct or prominent form.
- Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
- Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌækˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/
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It was a sonorous, harmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation.
Hence, normally, there is an accentuation of personal consciousness whenever our instincts and ready formed habits find themselves blocked by novel conditions.
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Most sharply does this appear in the theory of mutation, which is only a stronger accentuation of a main point in Darwinism.
In Case 1 the lying came long before pelvic disease was acquired, but very likely the irritation of the latter led to an accentuation of the psychical phenomena.
This reversion to spectacular observances is not confined to the upper-class cults, although it finds its best exemplification and its highest accentuation in the higher pecuniary and social altitudes.