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Definition of Slurring
1. slur [v] - See also: slur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slurring
Literary usage of Slurring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Frank Edgar Farley, Harvard University Dept. of Modern Languages (1902)
"Syncope or slurring of -e in final syllables when the noun accent falls on the
syllable immediately preceding (cf. ten Brink, ^ 259). ..."
2. Vocalism, Its Structure and Culture from an English Standpoint by William Hammond Breare (1904)
""slurring" /~\NE of the most disastrous and slovenly ^•"^ habits is "slurring.
... slurring " I define as exaggerated " portamento "—so exaggerated as to ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The performance should be free from dragging and slurring, faults which should
be strongly discouraged by the organist. Arbitrary, unindicated pauses should ..."
4. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1894)
"Undoubted instances of full syncope are perhaps rare, but, since it is seldom
possible to distinguish between full syncope and slurring (ten Brink's ..."
5. Vocalism, Its Structure and Culture from an English Standpoint by William Hammond Breare (1904)
""slurring" of the most disastrous and slovenly habits is "slurring. ... slurring "
I define as exaggerated " portamento "—so exaggerated as to become ..."
6. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"... the extra syllable clearly breaks the flow of the metre, are to be distinguished
from those which are so readily obscured in pronunciation, by slurring ..."
7. Violin Playing and Violin Adjustment by James Winram (1908)
"slurring. slurring is the art of playing two or more notes in one bow, ...
The chief point to watch in t. slurring is to move the bow at a pace that will ..."
8. A Latin Grammar by William Gardner Hale, Carl Darling Buck (1903)
"slurring 34. i. When a final vowel is followed by a word beginning with a vowel
or h, it is slurred or run into the vowel of the following word (as in ..."
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