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Definition of Circumflexes
1. circumflex [n] - See also: circumflex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumflexes
Literary usage of Circumflexes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of by William Sherwood (1856)
"ELIDES—CURVES circumflexes WALKER WRONG. IN vocal language, we perceive at every
impulse of the voice, an upward or downward slide, or turn. ..."
2. The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises by John Frost (1855)
"circumflexes. The rising circumflex begins with the falling inflection, and ends
with the rising upon the same syllable, and seems as it were to twist ..."
Other Resources:
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