The act of placing accents in writing, or of pronouncing them in speaking.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
Voice Roget’s Thesaurus §580
N. voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology
V. utter, breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry, ejaculate, rap out, vocalize, prolate|, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear
Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman", "the organ of the soul", "thy voice is a celestial melody"
Poetry Roget’s Thesaurus §597
N. poetry, poetics, poesy, muse, calliope, tuneful nine, parnassus, helicon, pierides, pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c, hexameter, pentameter, alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum
Adj. poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, melibean, skaldic, ionic, sapphic, alcaic, pindaric
Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star", dichtung und wahrheit, furor poeticus, "his virtues formed the magic of his song", "i do but sing because i must", "i learnt life from the poets", licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, "o for a muse of fire!", "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge", "the true poem is the poet's mind", volk der dichter und denker, "wisdom married to immortal verse"
No Bible verses found for "Accentuation".
