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ac·cen·tu·al 
[ak-sen-choo-uhl] Pronunciation Key
[ak-sen-choo-uhl] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | of or pertaining to accent or stress. |
| 2. | Prosody. of or pertaining to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities. |
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| ac·cen·tu·al
(āk-sěn'chōō-əl) Pronunciation Key
adj.
[From Latin accentus, accent; see accent.] ac·cen'tu·al·ly adv. |
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| accentual | |
adjective | |
| 1. | of or pertaining to accent or stress |
| 2. | (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm" [ant: quantitative, syllabic] |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Accentual
Ac*cen"tu*al\, a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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