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Webster's English Dictionary

accent

n. [F. accent, L. accentus; ad + cantus a singing, canere to sing. See Cant.]1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. ()

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2. A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents. ()

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3. Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. ()

The tender accent of a woman's cry. (Prior.)

4. A word; a significant tone ()

Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. (Dryden.)

5. (Pros.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. ()

6. (Mus.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. (J. S. Dwight.)

7. (Math.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y. ()

v. t. [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] ()

1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. ()

2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize. ()