monotonen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin monotonus; Greek μονότονος.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin monotonus (adjective) unvarying in tone (5th or 6th cent.) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek μονότονος steady, unwavering (in music only as adverb, μονοτόνως ) < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + τόνος tone n. Compare Italian monotono (17th cent.), French monotone (1710; 1750 in extended use), Spanish monótono (1797), German monoton (18th cent.; < French), all recorded only as adjectives. Compare slightly earlier monotony n. With use as adjective compare slightly earlier monotonical adj.In sense B. 3 after German monoton (C. Neumann Ueber die Nach Kreis-, Kugel- u. Cylinderfunctionen Fortschreitenden Entwickelungen (1881) ii. 26); compare earlier monotonic adj. 2, monotonous adj. 3.

A. n.

a. A continuation or uninterrupted repetition of the same vocal tone; an utterance continued or repeated without change of pitch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > monotonous sound > instance of

monotony1636

monotone1644

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > same pitch > note of same pitch > repetition of

monotony1636

monotone1644

repetend1874

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 136 Shun similitude of gesture; for as a monotone in the voyce, so a continued similitude of gesture.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 61 I mean that dangerous Affectation of the Monotone, or solemn Sameness of Pronunciation, which to my Ear is insupportable.

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 224 The pigeon kind excepted, whose slow plaintive continued monotone has something sweetly soothing in it.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 135 Frank, the large slow-flying, fish-eating, heron... Our name is probably derived from its monotone—which is supposed to be like fr a a a nk.

1880 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night 28 He murmured thus and thus in monotone.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 367 The speech is often monosyllabic, a whispered monotone.

1906 H. Black Edinb. Serm. 184 There is no music in a monotone.

1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth vi. 67 Speaking in a dull, hopeless monotone, as though he had the bitter lesson by heart.

1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman vii. 101 His replies to questions..were generally given in a monotone.

b. In extended use.

ΚΠ

a1849 E. A. Poe Bells in Poems (1859) 77 Tolling, tolling, tolling In that muffled monotone.

1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 76 Drearily solemn runs a monotone, Heard through breathless hush.

1907 J. Joyce Chamber Music xxxv Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone.

1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 237 On the bare boards..The rain drummed monotones.

1995 T. Clark Like Real People 52 Empty boat with lone sail, creaking rudder Sullen monotone of breakers on wood drums.

c. figurative. A monotonous continuation or recurrence of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]

unchangeabilityc1400

equability1531

unchangeableness1548

constancy1593

immutability1593

immutableness1610

oneness1611

unvariableness1611

irrevocability1613

unalterableness1620

fixedness1626

irreversiblenessa1631

equableness1641

invariability1644

irrevocableness1649

undiminishableness1653

invariableness1654

incommutability1674

intransmutability1692

inalterability1715

inconvertibleness1727

inchangeability1773

unimprovability1814

irreversibility1824

inconvertibilitya1832

unarbitrarinessa1834

changelessness1840

inadaptability1840

unalterability1847

unvaryingness1851

monotone1856

unmodifiableness1876

unchangingness1878

unchangedness1880

irreformability1883

plateau1897

homoeostasis1926

invariance1939

plateauing1957

the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > a recurrence

sitheOE

timec1275

return1585

retrieve1595

reoccurrence1788

monotone1856

re-run1922

replay1957

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 172 Its history [sc. that of science] is a monotone of endurance and destruction.

1874 J. R. Lowell Agassiz in Atlantic Monthly May 593 Our social monotone of level days, Might make our best seem banishment, But it was nothing so.

1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 61 In a dull dense monotone of pain.

1955 R. Church Over Bridge (1956) xiii. 162 We were home again, with our monotone of life humming along.

1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 74/1 Like all serious winds, they were the z-coordinate for our little stretch of plain, a move up from the Euclidian monotone of furrow, road, axis, and grid.

2. Monotony or sameness of style in composition or writing; a thing composed in a monotonous style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness

humdrum1727

woodenness1854

pedestrianism1858

monotone1871

blue-bookiness1909

1871 T. W. Higginson Atlantic Ess., Let. to Young Contrib. 78 An essay may be thoroughly delightful without a single witticism, while a monotone of jokes soon grows tedious.

1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) v. 169 ‘In Memoriam’..although a monotone, [is] no more monotonous than the sounds of nature,—the murmur of ocean [etc.].

1903 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 65 The whole story is a miracle in monotone.

1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde vi. 159 Ward praised Wilde for avoiding rhetorical tricks—a generous response to what others called a monotone.

3. A pictorial representation using only one tone or colour; the use of, or process of using, only one basic colour or tone. Cf. monotint n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > representation in one colour

monochrome1851

monotintc1875

monotone1896

monocolour1963

mono1983

1896 Boston (Mass.) Youth's Compan. 3 Dec. (advt.) Single and double-page engravings in monotone.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 114/3 The rug in monotone completely covers the floor.

1995 Camcorder User Apr. 78/3 This model is an unashamed point-and-shooter from JVC which features little bar..Twilight, Monotone and Fog exposure modes.

B. adj.

1. (Of a sound, utterance, etc.) continuing on or repeating the same note; having little or no variation in tone or pitch; (of a musical instrument) able to produce sounds of only one pitch. Also (in extended use): lacking variety; dull, repetitive. Cf. monotonous adj. 1, 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [adjective] > monotonous sound

droning1601

drony1754

monotone1770

monotonous1774

toneless1833

droned1863

strumming1887

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > repeated at same pitch

monotonical1752

monotone1770

monotonous1774

monotonic1797

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

humdrum1553

humdrumming1698

humdrummish1731

monotonous1774

samely1799

jog-trot1826

jog-jog1837

jog-trotty1853

same1891

clock-punching1920

monotone1926

samey1929

ho-hum1969

rumdum1973

1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 494 The Europeans conclude..the Chinese tongue..is barren, monotone, and hard to understand.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xxxvi. 33 The dulcimer, a monotone instrument shaped like an Æolian harp.

1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 100 As lulling as the monotone waves.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 6 The accent being either plain, i.e. monotone; or medius [etc.].

1901 R. Bridges Milton's Prosody 78 The monotone recitation of the prayers in cathedrals.

1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 133 One felt that she had built up for herself an intricate and perhaps rather lonely life, monotone beneath the great shadow of William.

1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 54 At times she is monolingual, monotone, At others mistress of the Tower of Babel.

1991 Traveller Spring 50/2 Sadly the book reads like this: measured, detached and emotionally monotone.

2. Of or in a single colour.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull

tedious1412

weary1549

plumbeousa1586

ungayed1670

deserta1674

prosaic1692

pedestrian1716

languishing1741

unglittering1813

prosy1837

urned1849

monotone1862

bluebooky1872

stodgy1874

pedestrial1941

1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. 195 The dark figure of a watchman soldier pacing his weary round through the monotone snow, appeared the only living object.

1932 E. Bowen To North xxvi. 287 Dust and lamp-light made the pale houses monotone.

1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 24 They're away to their best start in years, these plaids and stripes and monotone tweeds.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 156/4 The use of this monotone effect is largely responsible for making the room seem much larger than it is.

1991 Hair Flair Jan. 53/2 There will also be a move away from monotone blocks and streaks of colour to the layering of various deeper, richer colours to enhance natural highlights and lowlights in hair.

3. Mathematics. = monotonic adj. 2. Cf. monotonous adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to functions

generating1671

exponential1704

discontinuous1803

functional1806

odd1812

periodic1820

syzygetic1850

convex1858

graphometric1865

polycyclic1869

subrational1875

synectic1876

variational1879

polyhedral1881

holomorphic1886

tropical1887

Gudermannian1888

monogeneous1888

monotonous1890

oscillating1893

monotonic1901

monotone1903

orthogonalized1909

schlicht1925

concave1942

deconvolved1974

unate1978

1903 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 311 We now shall.., after the precedent of Stieltjes, construct for every even convergent a monotone function ϕ_n of a real variable u.

1937 Duke Math. Jrnl. 3 489 We assume that ϕ(ρ) is completely monotone in 0≦ρ<∞.

1970 R. B. Ash Basic Probability Theory viii. 255 ϕ has a monotone nondecreasing power function.

1990 IMA Jrnl. Appl. Math. 44 181 Traditional proofs of the upper and lower solution existence results for nonlinear elliptic equations use monotone iteration schemes based on the maximum principle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

monotonev.

Brit.

/ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: monotone n.

Etymology: < monotone n. Compare French monotoner to repeat one's movements to the same rhythm (1775). Compare earlier monotonize v.

transitive. To recite, speak, or sing in a monotone; to chant or intone on a single note.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > chant

sing1297

entunec1374

entonec1485

intonec1485

chant1526

rechant1600

cant1652

tone1674

intonate1795

monotone1864

incant1959

1864 J. W. Brooks & J. Place (title) On monotoning Prayer.

1880 F. G. Lee Church under Q. Elizabeth I. 313 The parish clerk..was duly authorized by the Primate of England..to monotone the Psalms at Mattins and Evensong.

1899 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 184 He generally seized the opportunity..to monotone long extracts.

1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue iii. 67 He could see in the streets far below him the steady stream of black-garbed slaves,..monotoning their dismal paean of triumph.

1994 i-D Oct. 118/1 His faith really lies in a dated Euromodernism rather than ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’, as Kraftwerk once monotoned.

Derivatives

ˈmonotoning n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting

chantingc1400

intonation1788

entonement1849

intonement1849

intoning1863

monotoning1878

intone1886

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > chanting or chanted

sung1473

chanted1565

canting1748

chanting1838

intoning1863

monotoning1878

1878 Littell's Living Age 4 May 303/1 The advocates of the modern practice of intoning and monotoning may find some countenance for the habit in the fact that there was a time when to sing out and to read out were one and the same thing.

1897 F. Thompson New Poems 159 The wind and I keep both one monotoning tongue.

1977 Gramophone May 1724/2 Another splendid feature is the impressive monotoning of the Gospel by Metropolitan Anthony.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monotone
释义	monotonen.adj. Brit. /ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/ Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin monotonus; Greek μονότονος. Etymology: < post-classical Latin monotonus (adjective) unvarying in tone (5th or 6th cent.) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek μονότονος steady, unwavering (in music only as adverb, μονοτόνως ) < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + τόνος tone n. Compare Italian monotono (17th cent.), French monotone (1710; 1750 in extended use), Spanish monótono (1797), German monoton (18th cent.; < French), all recorded only as adjectives. Compare slightly earlier monotony n. With use as adjective compare slightly earlier monotonical adj.In sense B. 3 after German monoton (C. Neumann Ueber die Nach Kreis-, Kugel- u. Cylinderfunctionen Fortschreitenden Entwickelungen (1881) ii. 26); compare earlier monotonic adj. 2, monotonous adj. 3. A. n. 1. a. A continuation or uninterrupted repetition of the same vocal tone; an utterance continued or repeated without change of pitch. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > monotonous sound > instance of monotony1636 monotone1644 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > same pitch > note of same pitch > repetition of monotony1636 monotone1644 repetend1874 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 136 Shun similitude of gesture; for as a monotone in the voyce, so a continued similitude of gesture. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 61 I mean that dangerous Affectation of the Monotone, or solemn Sameness of Pronunciation, which to my Ear is insupportable. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 224 The pigeon kind excepted, whose slow plaintive continued monotone has something sweetly soothing in it. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 135 Frank, the large slow-flying, fish-eating, heron... Our name is probably derived from its monotone—which is supposed to be like fr a a a nk. 1880 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night 28 He murmured thus and thus in monotone. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 367 The speech is often monosyllabic, a whispered monotone. 1906 H. Black Edinb. Serm. 184 There is no music in a monotone. 1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth vi. 67 Speaking in a dull, hopeless monotone, as though he had the bitter lesson by heart. 1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman vii. 101 His replies to questions..were generally given in a monotone. b. In extended use. ΚΠ a1849 E. A. Poe Bells in Poems (1859) 77 Tolling, tolling, tolling In that muffled monotone. 1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 76 Drearily solemn runs a monotone, Heard through breathless hush. 1907 J. Joyce Chamber Music xxxv Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone. 1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 237 On the bare boards..The rain drummed monotones. 1995 T. Clark Like Real People 52 Empty boat with lone sail, creaking rudder Sullen monotone of breakers on wood drums. c. figurative. A monotonous continuation or recurrence of something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun] unchangeabilityc1400 equability1531 unchangeableness1548 constancy1593 immutability1593 immutableness1610 oneness1611 unvariableness1611 irrevocability1613 unalterableness1620 fixedness1626 irreversiblenessa1631 equableness1641 invariability1644 irrevocableness1649 undiminishableness1653 invariableness1654 incommutability1674 intransmutability1692 inalterability1715 inconvertibleness1727 inchangeability1773 unimprovability1814 irreversibility1824 inconvertibilitya1832 unarbitrarinessa1834 changelessness1840 inadaptability1840 unalterability1847 unvaryingness1851 monotone1856 unmodifiableness1876 unchangingness1878 unchangedness1880 irreformability1883 plateau1897 homoeostasis1926 invariance1939 plateauing1957 the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > a recurrence sitheOE timec1275 return1585 retrieve1595 reoccurrence1788 monotone1856 re-run1922 replay1957 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 172 Its history [sc. that of science] is a monotone of endurance and destruction. 1874 J. R. Lowell Agassiz in Atlantic Monthly May 593 Our social monotone of level days, Might make our best seem banishment, But it was nothing so. 1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 61 In a dull dense monotone of pain. 1955 R. Church Over Bridge (1956) xiii. 162 We were home again, with our monotone of life humming along. 1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 74/1 Like all serious winds, they were the z-coordinate for our little stretch of plain, a move up from the Euclidian monotone of furrow, road, axis, and grid. 2. Monotony or sameness of style in composition or writing; a thing composed in a monotonous style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness humdrum1727 woodenness1854 pedestrianism1858 monotone1871 blue-bookiness1909 1871 T. W. Higginson Atlantic Ess., Let. to Young Contrib. 78 An essay may be thoroughly delightful without a single witticism, while a monotone of jokes soon grows tedious. 1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) v. 169 ‘In Memoriam’..although a monotone, [is] no more monotonous than the sounds of nature,—the murmur of ocean [etc.]. 1903 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 65 The whole story is a miracle in monotone. 1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde vi. 159 Ward praised Wilde for avoiding rhetorical tricks—a generous response to what others called a monotone. 3. A pictorial representation using only one tone or colour; the use of, or process of using, only one basic colour or tone. Cf. monotint n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > representation in one colour monochrome1851 monotintc1875 monotone1896 monocolour1963 mono1983 1896 Boston (Mass.) Youth's Compan. 3 Dec. (advt.) Single and double-page engravings in monotone. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 114/3 The rug in monotone completely covers the floor. 1995 Camcorder User Apr. 78/3 This model is an unashamed point-and-shooter from JVC which features little bar..Twilight, Monotone and Fog exposure modes. B. adj. 1. (Of a sound, utterance, etc.) continuing on or repeating the same note; having little or no variation in tone or pitch; (of a musical instrument) able to produce sounds of only one pitch. Also (in extended use): lacking variety; dull, repetitive. Cf. monotonous adj. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [adjective] > monotonous sound droning1601 drony1754 monotone1770 monotonous1774 toneless1833 droned1863 strumming1887 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > repeated at same pitch monotonical1752 monotone1770 monotonous1774 monotonic1797 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 494 The Europeans conclude..the Chinese tongue..is barren, monotone, and hard to understand. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xxxvi. 33 The dulcimer, a monotone instrument shaped like an Æolian harp. 1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 100 As lulling as the monotone waves. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 6 The accent being either plain, i.e. monotone; or medius [etc.]. 1901 R. Bridges Milton's Prosody 78 The monotone recitation of the prayers in cathedrals. 1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 133 One felt that she had built up for herself an intricate and perhaps rather lonely life, monotone beneath the great shadow of William. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 54 At times she is monolingual, monotone, At others mistress of the Tower of Babel. 1991 Traveller Spring 50/2 Sadly the book reads like this: measured, detached and emotionally monotone. 2. Of or in a single colour. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull tedious1412 weary1549 plumbeousa1586 ungayed1670 deserta1674 prosaic1692 pedestrian1716 languishing1741 unglittering1813 prosy1837 urned1849 monotone1862 bluebooky1872 stodgy1874 pedestrial1941 1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. 195 The dark figure of a watchman soldier pacing his weary round through the monotone snow, appeared the only living object. 1932 E. Bowen To North xxvi. 287 Dust and lamp-light made the pale houses monotone. 1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 24 They're away to their best start in years, these plaids and stripes and monotone tweeds. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 156/4 The use of this monotone effect is largely responsible for making the room seem much larger than it is. 1991 Hair Flair Jan. 53/2 There will also be a move away from monotone blocks and streaks of colour to the layering of various deeper, richer colours to enhance natural highlights and lowlights in hair. 3. Mathematics. = monotonic adj. 2. Cf. monotonous adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to functions generating1671 exponential1704 discontinuous1803 functional1806 odd1812 periodic1820 syzygetic1850 convex1858 graphometric1865 polycyclic1869 subrational1875 synectic1876 variational1879 polyhedral1881 holomorphic1886 tropical1887 Gudermannian1888 monogeneous1888 monotonous1890 oscillating1893 monotonic1901 monotone1903 orthogonalized1909 schlicht1925 concave1942 deconvolved1974 unate1978 1903 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 311 We now shall.., after the precedent of Stieltjes, construct for every even convergent a monotone function ϕ_n of a real variable u. 1937 Duke Math. Jrnl. 3 489 We assume that ϕ(ρ) is completely monotone in 0≦ρ<∞. 1970 R. B. Ash Basic Probability Theory viii. 255 ϕ has a monotone nondecreasing power function. 1990 IMA Jrnl. Appl. Math. 44 181 Traditional proofs of the upper and lower solution existence results for nonlinear elliptic equations use monotone iteration schemes based on the maximum principle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). monotonev. Brit. /ˈmɒnətəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtoʊn/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: monotone n. Etymology: < monotone n. Compare French monotoner to repeat one's movements to the same rhythm (1775). Compare earlier monotonize v. transitive. To recite, speak, or sing in a monotone; to chant or intone on a single note. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > chant sing1297 entunec1374 entonec1485 intonec1485 chant1526 rechant1600 cant1652 tone1674 intonate1795 monotone1864 incant1959 1864 J. W. Brooks & J. Place (title) On monotoning Prayer. 1880 F. G. Lee Church under Q. Elizabeth I. 313 The parish clerk..was duly authorized by the Primate of England..to monotone the Psalms at Mattins and Evensong. 1899 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 184 He generally seized the opportunity..to monotone long extracts. 1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue iii. 67 He could see in the streets far below him the steady stream of black-garbed slaves,..monotoning their dismal paean of triumph. 1994 i-D Oct. 118/1 His faith really lies in a dated Euromodernism rather than ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’, as Kraftwerk once monotoned. Derivatives ˈmonotoning n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting chantingc1400 intonation1788 entonement1849 intonement1849 intoning1863 monotoning1878 intone1886 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > chanting or chanted sung1473 chanted1565 canting1748 chanting1838 intoning1863 monotoning1878 1878 Littell's Living Age 4 May 303/1 The advocates of the modern practice of intoning and monotoning may find some countenance for the habit in the fact that there was a time when to sing out and to read out were one and the same thing. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 159 The wind and I keep both one monotoning tongue. 1977 Gramophone May 1724/2 Another splendid feature is the impressive monotoning of the Gospel by Metropolitan Anthony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1644v.1864
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