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- adverb In a
contrastive manner.
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Examples
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These parallels become especially impressive when they are seen contrastively from a wide phonetic perspective.
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Desert, which is beautiful sung to godly words, and contrastively effective sung to humorous words.
Cameronian Cat 1819
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The moment we wear pessimistic or dejected outlook, the whole atmosphere around us seems all negative and dejected and we look very much dull in our appearance and contrastively when we wear optimistic or jolly outlook, we look very much hygienically glowing in our skin.
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The moment we wear pessimistic or dejected outlook, the whole atmosphere around us seems all negative and dejected and we look very much dull in our appearance and contrastively when we wear optimistic or jolly outlook, we look very much hygienically glowing in our skin.
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Slide 9: Contrastive Stress In contrastive contexts, the stress pattern is quite different from the emphatic and non-emphatic stresses in that any lexical item in an utterance can receive the tonic stress provided that the contrastively stressed item can be contrastable in that universe of speech.
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There are two ways out of this dilemma for the ordinary dictionary: (1) define contrastively and (2) cross refer to similar words by a "See also" reference.
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