Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Strongly marked; strong; prominent; very distinct: as, accentuated features; an accentuated fault of manner.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of accentuate.

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Examples

  • And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • New York, 1906, p. 89) places hymns in this measure among those "in which the verbal accent preponderates and the metrical accent only makes itself noticeable in certain places (particularly in the fourth line and when a line closes with a word accentuated on the penultimate)".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The slump of his shoulders and a bleak expression accentuated the careworn look in his eyes.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The slump of his shoulders and a bleak expression accentuated the careworn look in his eyes.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • She assumed a grim expression accentuated by the severity of her long straight bangs.

    The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

  • This kind of accentuated a growing dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the camp system.

    Oral History Interview with Igal Roodenko, April 11, 1974. Interview B-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • When one of the flight crew radioed Tokyo Airport, one minute and two seconds after missile detonation, his breathing was already "accentuated" as he was then speaking through the mike located in his oxygen mask,

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010

  • When one of the flight crew radioed Tokyo Airport, one minute and two seconds after missile detonation, his breathing was already "accentuated" as he was then speaking through the mike located in his oxygen mask,

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BertSchlossberg 2010

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    November 3, 2010