accentual
of or relating to accent or stress.
Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.
Origin of accentual
1Other words from accentual
- ac·cen·tu·al·i·ty, noun
- ac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverb
- non·ac·cen·tu·al, adjective
- non·ac·cen·tu·al·ly, adverb
Words Nearby accentual
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How to use accentual in a sentence
Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.
An excellent example of accentual verse set to an already existing melody is seen in Li Bon Prouvençau.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerThere are sure to be foreign sounds or accentual peculiarities that do not fit the native phonetic habits.
Language | Edward SapirA song is still extant in rhyme and loose accentual measure, written upon a victory of Clotaire II.
There is no such thing as quantity except so far as it is accentual also.
Opuscula | Robert Gordon Latham
Unhappily those who agree in regarding the metre as purely accentual agree in little else.
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse | Various
British Dictionary definitions for accentual
/ (ækˈsɛntʃʊəl) /
of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables: Compare quantitative (def. 3)
Derived forms of accentual
- accentually, adverb
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