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Meanings of accenting in English

The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

Synonyms
Examples for "emphasizing"
Examples for "emphasizing"
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It needs enemies because it defines itself through emphasizing others as different.
Feminist dot com
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We're emphasizing what we think is really important, which is people's music.
Wired
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She takes things seriously from the start, emphasizing Mel's realist maternal impulses.
Reuters
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They claim the bank is emphasizing quantity over quality in its investigations.
Reuters
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I was on this campus last night, he said, emphasizing each word.
Go Set a Watchman
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Membrane accentuation and exclusive cytoplasmic reactivity were analysed as separate staining patterns.
Pubmed
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Next, he repeated thee same prayers, but louder and with increased accentuation.
Childhood
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This is due to a marked accentuation of the function of the skin.
The Mother and Her Child
4
Pronunciation is the proper sounding of consonants, vowels and the accentuation of each syllable.
Etiquette
5
In manuscripts of later date are found a regular punctuation, and marks of accentuation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10,...
Usage of accenting in English
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The accenting of the Japanese names is not consistent throughout the book.
Japanese Literature / Including Selections from Genji Monogatari...
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This coloring is a means of strongly accenting this fine architectural feature.
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
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Here and there, burning candles added their own luminescence, accenting the objects nearby.
Sins of the Fathers
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Uncle Enoch would growl, accenting his words by jerking the lines.
Horses Nine / Stories of Harness and Saddle
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His designs, mainly in blacks, greens and grays with accenting colors, are architectural.
Reuters
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She should wear soft, loose things where no accenting high-lights could find a foothold.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home
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She nodded, triumph accenting the strained look on her face.
Bring the Jubilee
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Silver moonlight dappled his face, accenting his wry expression.
Immortal wolf
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Both carriages were done all in white with hand-painted maroon pin-stripping accenting the carriage's design.
Hearts of grey
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And it was expertly tailored to her, accenting a body that had seen regular gym time.
Naked Heat
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Fifty thousand jewels are used on the Tower alone, accenting in the main its architectural feature.
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
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As a further illustration, read the following stanza of poetry, especially accenting the syllables as marked:
The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language / Word-Study ...
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And everywhere were cornfields, accenting with squares of deeper green, this limitless expanse of grassy land.
Roughing It
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People hurried by muffled in overcoats and furs, their straw hats incongruously accenting the almost wintry gloom.
The Blood Red Dawn
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He believed that things could be kept together by accenting the similarities, not the differences of men.
The Longest Journey
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She looked really pretty in a mocha shift dress with a loose bow accenting the V neckline.
L.a. candy
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