Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
accidental .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "accidentals", the nonthinkers, the delusional are not necessarily lost causes, you know?
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The "accidentals", the nonthinkers, the delusional are not necessarily lost causes, you know?
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Most of them involve "accidentals," matters of punctuation or spelling.
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It would be impossible to fill the wall-cases, if properly proportioned, with these few, even given all the favourable conditions of procuring the "accidentals" and varieties, under ten years.
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This use of accent for characterization is also quite distinct from its use with "accidentals," or tones foreign to the prevailing tonality.
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In the following examples, the tones marked [accent symbol] are "accidentals," and for that reason should receive a faint stress.
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Hither resort those "accidentals" of fancy that make the stage, the drawing-room, and all the schools of artistic endeavor interesting or peculiar.
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These "accidentals" as the painters say were quite as we wished them to be.
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An uncultivated listener, hearing an oratorio of one of the great masters, would detect discords again and again in the strains; and as a matter of fact, what are called "accidentals" in music are discords, but discords inserted to heighten the harmony.
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My understanding is that the 'accidentals' of bread and wine remain (a mystery for sure) but not the reality of bread and wine.
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