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Definition of Accentual

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to accent or stress.

2. Adjective. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity. "Accentual rhythm"

Definition of Accentual

1. a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Definition of Accentual

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. ¹

2. Adjective. Designating verse rhythmss based on stress accents. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accentual

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accentual

accensors accent accent acute accent grave accent mark accent marks accented accenting accentless accentlessly

accentlessness accentor accentors accents accentuable accentual (current term) accentual system accentuality accentually accentuate

accentuated accentuates accentuating accentuation accentuations accentuator accentuators accept accept service acceptabilities

Literary usage of Accentual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1893)
"accentual RHYTHM IN LATIN. BY JB GREENOUGH. IN the great controversy as to whether the Saturnian verse was quantitative or accentual, each side maintains ..."

2. The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification: With Especial Reference by Charlton Miner Lewis (1898)
"accentual .verse. The third and last of the distinct principles of modern ... The accentual principle may therefore be regarded as the sole native base of ..."

3. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris (1841)
"We are now to proceed to the modern languages, and to our own in particular, which, like the rest, has little of harmony but what it derives from accentual ..."

4. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"With the approach of the Middle Ages, the antique metres decayed or were transformed to accentual rhythms; the appreciation of antique forms of poetry ..."

5. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"With the approach of the Middle Ages, the antique metres decayed or were transformed to accentual rhythms; the appreciation of antique forms of poetry ..."

6. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"With the approach of the Middle Ages, the antique metres decayed or were transformed to accentual rhythms; the appreciation of antique forms of poetry ..."

7. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"accentual VERSE. Although no accentual verses were written in French before the nineteenth century, they found an isolated supporter at the beginning of the ..."

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