accentuationn.

Brit.

/əkˌsɛntʃʊˈeɪʃn/,

/akˌsɛntʃʊˈeɪʃn/,

/əkˌsɛntjʊˈeɪʃn/,

/akˌsɛntjʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ækˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈweɪʃən/,

/əkˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈweɪʃən/

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin accentuation-, accentuatio.

Etymology: Probably < post-classical Latin accentuation-, accentuatio placing of accent (1496 or earlier) < accentuat- , past participial stem of accentuare accentuate v. + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French accentuation (1521). Compare later accentuate v.

a. The placing of accent or stress in speech, prosody, or music; the use, application, or pattern of accent or stress.

ΚΠ

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 322 So pregnantly witted and so excellently spedde in armonye and musike, that comprehended is vndre the accentuation of curious metrifiying.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 263/2 To give stability to our Pronunciation, for want of which we are now totally ignorant of the metrical art of our ancient poets, the accentuation of all polysyllables is determined by proper authorities and distinguished by proper marks.

1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. vii. 121 There are a few lines in the Paradise Lost, absonous from multiplied variations, and other faults in the accentuation something different from those already mentioned.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 76 Ancient music..must have derived this power chiefly from the energy and accentuation of the rhythm.

1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 147 We seem to have the three great principles of accentuation; namely, the radical, the terminational, and the distinctive.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth II. 208 The Latin..has substituted a stately monotonousness for the ever flexible rhythm and changing accentuation of the Greek.

1847 T. De Quincey Milton v. Southey & Landor in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 256/2 The accentuation of Milton's age was, in many words, entirely different from ours.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 37 It has been recently placed beyond a doubt that the Sanscrit system of accentuation is identical with that of the Greek.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. i. 23 Children..learn the accentuation as well as the sounds of each word.

1959 H. Gardner Business of Crit. i. i. 5 The critic today..hardly dares to talk of the ‘music of Shakespeare's verse’, because he is uncertain of the quality or the quantity of the vowels and of possible shifts in the accentuation of words.

1982 Ethnomusicol. 26 402 The accompanying riqq continually ornaments the metric mode with respect to timbre, accentuation, and rhythmic detail.

2006 J. C. Wells Eng. Intonation iii. 114 Accentuation and tonicity depend on the speaker's mental planning.

b. Mode of pronunciation; vocal modulation.Not in technical use, and now not clearly distinguishable from sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > qualities of speech sounds

strength1550

smoothedness1574

clearness1665

apertion1668

nasality1774

accentuation1806

percussiveness1863

nasalism1876

compactness1930

over-articulation1935

orality1949

1806 J. Carr Stranger in Ireland x. 149 The ladies of Ireland are generally elegantly, and frequently highly educated; there are very few who do not speak French fluently, and many speak it with the purity of its native accentuation.

1807 ‘M. A. Espriella’ Lett. from Eng. III. lxxiii. 335 I can discover but not discriminate, provincial intonations, and sometimes provincial accentuation, but the peculiar words, or phrases, or modes of speech which characterize the different parts of the country, a foreigner cannot perceive.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. viii. 244 There was a strong provincial accentuation, but, otherwise, the language..was graceful, flowing and declamatory.

1879 A. Trollope Cousin Henry xiv. 161 Read them one after another..slowly, but with clear accentuation so that every point..might be understood.

1907 G. Atherton Ancestors i. iv. 40 A tall buxom young woman of the purest Saxon type..her intimate casual manner, her slight movements, her accentuation, manifestly bred in the bone.

2009 H. Weydt in A. Witte et al. Transl. in Second Lang. Learning & Teaching iii. 293 Then he read, helping us with a clear accentuation, which made us aware of the position of the verb was [sic] and how the elements were related to each other.

2. The marking of accents in writing, printing, or (now) through a computer keyboard; notation using accents.

ΚΠ

1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church 677 (margin) Φάσματα κακιῶν (for so the Accentuation is to be restored).

1702 R. Fleming Blessedness of those who die in Lord 69 It is easie to imagine whence the mistake comes, viz. from a wrong accentuation of the Copies, which originally had no Accents at all.

a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 313 What Mr Cross calls the Taghmical Art; viz. the sacred stigmatology, or accentuation of the Hebrew Bible.

1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit iv. 366 The learned and judicious Boston, who in the study of the Hebrew accentuation, far outstripped all who went before him, thinks that the rings into which the staves were put, were eight and not four only.

1821 M. Stuart Hebrew Gram. vii. 21 Probably.., it [sc. the vowel system] first began, as the accentuation of Greek did, in the schools; and gradually spread, on account of its utility in a dead language, into a great part of the Hebrew MSS.

1859 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. July 446 The doctors of the school of Tiberias finally fixed the sacred text by perfecting our present system of vocalization and accentuation.

1901 P. Giles Short Man. Compar. Philol. (ed. 2) §271. 230 In the difference of accentuation between οἴκοι and οἵκοι we have probably traces of the difference between original dimoric and trimoric diphthongs.

1921 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 42 361 Signs are employed in the early Visigothic manuscripts not only for punctuation but for accentuation..and likewise for marking prosody.

1977 J. A. Emerton in H. A. Brongers Instr. & Interpr. 51 It is likely that the accentuation of the verb as the third person feminine singular is wrong.

2009 J. Fleischer in R. Hinterhölzl & S. Petrova Information Struct. & Lang. Change 171 If consistency is lacking and a manuscript only displays some scattered instances of accentuation,..it becomes much more difficult to interpret these instances in a functional light.

3. figurative. The making of a thing more noticeable or prominent; emphasizing, emphasis.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > assigning degrees of importance > raising in importance

much-makinga1656

accentuation1855

magnifying1868

1855 Q. Rev. Apr. 162/1 Portions, too, whether in the round or in the relief, may need the accentuation of a line of colour to define a boundary,or explain a form.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 501 The constant ‘accentuation,’ as it is called, of principles in historical writing, invariably marks a narrow view of truth.

1946 P. White Let. 30 Oct. (1994) iii. 67 We must learn to think in international terms if we are to avoid an accentuation in world suffering.

1991 M. Mackie Gender Relations Canada v. 117/2 The accentuation of women's lack of power that often accompanies parenthood explains the anti-natalism of the early stage of the renewed feminist movement.

2007 L. Trahair Comedy of Philos. vi. 138 Simple caricature ranges from accentuation to exaggeration.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	accentuation
释义	accentuationn. Brit. /əkˌsɛntʃʊˈeɪʃn/, /akˌsɛntʃʊˈeɪʃn/, /əkˌsɛntjʊˈeɪʃn/, /akˌsɛntjʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ækˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈweɪʃən/, /əkˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈweɪʃən/ Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin accentuation-, accentuatio. Etymology: Probably < post-classical Latin accentuation-, accentuatio placing of accent (1496 or earlier) < accentuat- , past participial stem of accentuare accentuate v. + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French accentuation (1521). Compare later accentuate v. 1. a. The placing of accent or stress in speech, prosody, or music; the use, application, or pattern of accent or stress. ΚΠ c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 322 So pregnantly witted and so excellently spedde in armonye and musike, that comprehended is vndre the accentuation of curious metrifiying. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 263/2 To give stability to our Pronunciation, for want of which we are now totally ignorant of the metrical art of our ancient poets, the accentuation of all polysyllables is determined by proper authorities and distinguished by proper marks. 1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. vii. 121 There are a few lines in the Paradise Lost, absonous from multiplied variations, and other faults in the accentuation something different from those already mentioned. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 76 Ancient music..must have derived this power chiefly from the energy and accentuation of the rhythm. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 147 We seem to have the three great principles of accentuation; namely, the radical, the terminational, and the distinctive. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth II. 208 The Latin..has substituted a stately monotonousness for the ever flexible rhythm and changing accentuation of the Greek. 1847 T. De Quincey Milton v. Southey & Landor in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 256/2 The accentuation of Milton's age was, in many words, entirely different from ours. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 37 It has been recently placed beyond a doubt that the Sanscrit system of accentuation is identical with that of the Greek. 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. i. 23 Children..learn the accentuation as well as the sounds of each word. 1959 H. Gardner Business of Crit. i. i. 5 The critic today..hardly dares to talk of the ‘music of Shakespeare's verse’, because he is uncertain of the quality or the quantity of the vowels and of possible shifts in the accentuation of words. 1982 Ethnomusicol. 26 402 The accompanying riqq continually ornaments the metric mode with respect to timbre, accentuation, and rhythmic detail. 2006 J. C. Wells Eng. Intonation iii. 114 Accentuation and tonicity depend on the speaker's mental planning. b. Mode of pronunciation; vocal modulation.Not in technical use, and now not clearly distinguishable from sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > qualities of speech sounds strength1550 smoothedness1574 clearness1665 apertion1668 nasality1774 accentuation1806 percussiveness1863 nasalism1876 compactness1930 over-articulation1935 orality1949 1806 J. Carr Stranger in Ireland x. 149 The ladies of Ireland are generally elegantly, and frequently highly educated; there are very few who do not speak French fluently, and many speak it with the purity of its native accentuation. 1807 ‘M. A. Espriella’ Lett. from Eng. III. lxxiii. 335 I can discover but not discriminate, provincial intonations, and sometimes provincial accentuation, but the peculiar words, or phrases, or modes of speech which characterize the different parts of the country, a foreigner cannot perceive. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. viii. 244 There was a strong provincial accentuation, but, otherwise, the language..was graceful, flowing and declamatory. 1879 A. Trollope Cousin Henry xiv. 161 Read them one after another..slowly, but with clear accentuation so that every point..might be understood. 1907 G. Atherton Ancestors i. iv. 40 A tall buxom young woman of the purest Saxon type..her intimate casual manner, her slight movements, her accentuation, manifestly bred in the bone. 2009 H. Weydt in A. Witte et al. Transl. in Second Lang. Learning & Teaching iii. 293 Then he read, helping us with a clear accentuation, which made us aware of the position of the verb was [sic] and how the elements were related to each other. 2. The marking of accents in writing, printing, or (now) through a computer keyboard; notation using accents. ΚΠ 1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church 677 (margin) Φάσματα κακιῶν (for so the Accentuation is to be restored). 1702 R. Fleming Blessedness of those who die in Lord 69 It is easie to imagine whence the mistake comes, viz. from a wrong accentuation of the Copies, which originally had no Accents at all. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 313 What Mr Cross calls the Taghmical Art; viz. the sacred stigmatology, or accentuation of the Hebrew Bible. 1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit iv. 366 The learned and judicious Boston, who in the study of the Hebrew accentuation, far outstripped all who went before him, thinks that the rings into which the staves were put, were eight and not four only. 1821 M. Stuart Hebrew Gram. vii. 21 Probably.., it [sc. the vowel system] first began, as the accentuation of Greek did, in the schools; and gradually spread, on account of its utility in a dead language, into a great part of the Hebrew MSS. 1859 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. July 446 The doctors of the school of Tiberias finally fixed the sacred text by perfecting our present system of vocalization and accentuation. 1901 P. Giles Short Man. Compar. Philol. (ed. 2) §271. 230 In the difference of accentuation between οἴκοι and οἵκοι we have probably traces of the difference between original dimoric and trimoric diphthongs. 1921 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 42 361 Signs are employed in the early Visigothic manuscripts not only for punctuation but for accentuation..and likewise for marking prosody. 1977 J. A. Emerton in H. A. Brongers Instr. & Interpr. 51 It is likely that the accentuation of the verb as the third person feminine singular is wrong. 2009 J. Fleischer in R. Hinterhölzl & S. Petrova Information Struct. & Lang. Change 171 If consistency is lacking and a manuscript only displays some scattered instances of accentuation,..it becomes much more difficult to interpret these instances in a functional light. 3. figurative. The making of a thing more noticeable or prominent; emphasizing, emphasis. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > assigning degrees of importance > raising in importance much-makinga1656 accentuation1855 magnifying1868 1855 Q. Rev. Apr. 162/1 Portions, too, whether in the round or in the relief, may need the accentuation of a line of colour to define a boundary,or explain a form. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 501 The constant ‘accentuation,’ as it is called, of principles in historical writing, invariably marks a narrow view of truth. 1946 P. White Let. 30 Oct. (1994) iii. 67 We must learn to think in international terms if we are to avoid an accentuation in world suffering. 1991 M. Mackie Gender Relations Canada v. 117/2 The accentuation of women's lack of power that often accompanies parenthood explains the anti-natalism of the early stage of the renewed feminist movement. 2007 L. Trahair Comedy of Philos. vi. 138 Simple caricature ranges from accentuation to exaggeration. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1487
随便看	θ39352 θ39353 θ39354 θ39355 θ39356 θ39357 θ39358 θ39359 θ3936 θ39360 θ39361 θ39362 θ39363 θ39364 θ39365 θ39366 θ39367 θ39368 θ39369 θ3937 θ39370 θ39372 θ39373 θ39374 θ39375