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- noun The act or process of
intoning . - noun Something
intoned .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Have done, O talkative man," cried Conall, "whose words are like the words of a seer, or the full-voiced intonement of a chief bard."
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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This public perception is shaped by the constant intonement that Tiller was "killing babies" coming from irresponsible journalistic hacks like Bill O'Reilly, the suggestions by Chris Matthews that women are blithely electing to abort fetuses that are viable outside the womb, and the statements of inconsistent moralizers like Will Saletan that "there are cases where there's no real medical situation other than some teenager in denial and it went on for five months [where the argument is] you should make an exception because of the so-called mental health of the girl."
Jodi Jacobson: Late-term Abortions: Facts, Stories and Ways to Help 2009
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