accentuation

From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate +‎ -ion.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌækˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪkˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

accentuation (countable and uncountable, plural accentuations)

1. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110:

     This elementary instruction is language at its most advanced to minds trained on the accentuation of the antepenult (multiplicity) and on Sievers-type C2 half-line metrical patterns[.]

2. (ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

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accentuation f (plural accentuations)

1. stressing, accenting

• “accentuation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.