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Meanings of accentuation in English

The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

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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
1
The accenting of the Japanese names is not consistent throughout the book.
Japanese Literature / Including Selections from Genji Monogatari...
2
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.
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Usage of accentuation in English
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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
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Pronunciation is the proper sounding of consonants, vowels and the accentuation of each syllable.
Etiquette
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In manuscripts of later date are found a regular punctuation, and marks of accentuation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10,...
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What this misses entirely is his accentuation of just deserts.
The Guardian
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Rapid and marked accentuation of unidexterity is a pubescent change.
Civics and Health
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All that modern editing can do since Miluki is to hunt out fresh accentuation.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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NGF and NT3 were distributed diffusely with some nodular accentuation.
Pubmed
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The words were spoken with as perfect accentuation as Jack Carleton could have used.
The Lost Trail
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Also in thinking that the monotheism is not the element that needs the most accentuation.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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At the first word, he was surprised by the change in her voice and accentuation.
The Nether World
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Another slight peculiarity ought perhaps to be noticed: it is the accentuation of the Latin.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the N...
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Its accentuation is much like that in Beethoven's piano sonata (op.
Contemporary American Composers / Being a Study of the Music of ...
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George Eliot's strong accentuation of the race is the Gospel of annihilation to the individual.
Cobwebs of Thought
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This accentuation is eliminated during ischemia that causes AIMR.
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Accentuation through the time
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