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Definition of Stress mark
1. Noun. A mark indicating the stress on a syllable.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stress Mark
Literary usage of Stress mark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"The troubles caused by the practis of using the stress-mark after the ...
by placing the stress-mark above or below the vowel or consonant of maximum ..."
2. The Stress Accent in Latin Poetry by Elizabeth Hickman Du Bois (1906)
"... the feet in which word accent and quantity coincide, have the stress-mark on
the first syllable; the feet in which they do not coincide are read without ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"... for the position of the stress-mark were impracticable. Stress could not be
marked either before or over or ..."
4. A Primer of Spoken English by Henry Sweet (1890)
"If a strong stress mark is already implied, the addition of (-) is enough to mark
emphatic stress instead of (;), as in :whot з -pin, ..."
5. A Primer of Spoken English by Henry Sweet (1890)
"If a strong stress mark is already implied, the addition of (•) is enough to mark
emphatic stress instead of (;), as in ..."
6. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The stress mark over the vowel indicates that the accent is group-stress (50. A.
6) rather than word-stress, for compounds originated in a group of words in ..."
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