accentingn.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Prosodia, the craft of accentinge.

1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike 5b The fault in accenting is, when..we put downe that syllable which should be lift vp: or contrary lift vp, which should be put down.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 317 One [accent] seruing for the accenting and prolation of the word.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus iii. vii. 75 I wold not haue you ignorant, that in accenting oftentimes the maner and custome of the Country and place is kept; as in the great Church of Magdeburgh, Tu autem Domine, is read with the middle sillable long, by reason of the Custome of that Church.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. xlvi. 58 [It] Perfects the sound, and gives more sharp accenting.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 106 The ill pronunciation or ill accenting of a word in a Sermon spoiles it. View more context for this quotation

1686 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 76 A most inconvenient affectation of Monasyllabical Words in this Court Language, to help the poverty of which, they are fain to make one Syllable to signify many differing Notions, to do which they have introduced a kind of Musical toning or accenting of each of them.

1737 B. Martin Bibliotheca Technologica 141 Prosody also gives Rules for the Quantity of Voice, and due Accenting of Syllables in Words.

1779 J. Baine Easy Introd. Princ. Music (new ed.) x. 10 Gracing or accenting of Music, depends more on the Performer's Taste than any Rule that can be given.

1811 T. Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 4) 4 Accentuation, the act of accenting; i. e. the giving to the several notes of a composition, their due emphasis, or expression.

1831 Ladies' Museum Feb. 53/2 There is in a look, or an accenting of a word, a something indescribable, which speaks volumes.

1873 Musical Times 16 65 (advt.) These beautiful effects are produced without any effort on the part of the player, except the swelling or accenting of these additional single note or solo parts, by means of a pedal or ‘knee-swell’.

1912 Amer. Ann. Deaf 57 502 Forming the habit which would later result in the accenting of certain syllables in words.

1974 A. Wainwright Sc. Mountain Drawings I. Introd. Confusion is worse confounded by inconsistency in the accenting of vowels.

2009 W. Everett Found. Rock xii. 315 Our final type of syncopation involves the accenting of parts of beats not normally articulated by combining mismatched divisions.

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Ciij Proprietie, is when in wryting and pronunciation ther is no fautes committed... The partes bee proposicion, and accenting.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Accenting or trew pronouncyng or readyng: Accentus.

1595 T. Morley First Bk. Canzonets to Two Voyces i. sig. B Goe yee my Canzonets to my deer darling, to my deere darling, and with your gentle daintie sweet accentings, desire hir to vouchsafe these my lamentings.

1657 T. M. Life Satyrical Puppy 41 O how he weigh'd each word to the very poyse of Accenting.

1837 Ladies Pocket Mag. 83 A trembling hand, and interrupted accenting of ‘good night’, brought brotherhood to its resignation, and substituted the title of husband in its place.

1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xiii. 292 She sang Rose of Picardy, her voice whiny and monotonous in its even accenting.

1968 G. Plimpton Bogey Man xxvi. 170 ‘Apportez-moi un sherry,’ she said carefully... It was her strong accenting of the word ‘sherry’ that got her into trouble... ‘Apportez-moi un chéri’ is what the room service man heard over the phone.

1599 in J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. (title page) Now enlarged and amplified with many thousand words, as by this marke * to each of them prefixed may appeere; together with the accenting of euery worde throughout the whole dictionarie, for the true pronunciation of the language.

1650 J. Owen Of Death of Christ sig. Bb^v The Author having no opportunity to attend the Press,..finds the Accenting of sundry Greek Expressions omitted, with other mistakes, which he desireth the Reader to Correct as followeth.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 129 The strange Mysteries they fancy in the strange Accenting of the Ten Commandments in the Original.

1700 H. Wanley Let. 28 Dec. 151 From the..miserable false spelling, pointing and accenting, you would almost swear..the work of one..more us'd to handle a Needle than a Pen.

1735 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/2 There is a little Greek, and some Doubt arising about the accenting of it, it remains unaccented to this Day.

1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 214/1 The author does not appear sufficiently versed in the accenting, especially in the poetical books; besides..many faults have crept in.

1844 J. Calvert Psalter & Canticles in Services Pref. p. vii This style of reciting, or ‘tuning’ of the Psalms, was subject to many faults and imperfections, principally arising from the wrong dividing or accenting of the words.

1897 Homiletic Rev. June 182/2 (advt.) A helpful feature is the accenting of proper names.

1954 J. Needham Sci. & Civilization in China I. i. 16 We are also greatly indebted to..Mr. Shackleton Bailey for assistance, equally kind, in the accenting of Sanskrit words.

2006 R. R. Ellis Learning to read Biblical Hebrew iii. 21 The Masoretes developed a highly specialized system of accenting for sentences in the Hebrew Bible.