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- noun Plural form of
oxytone .
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Examples
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Read as he might, poor John could not understand the ever-changing value of 'oxytones,' 'penacutes,' 'ternacutes,'
The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865
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Finding it absolutely impossible to get over the oxytones, he shrunk back from the quartacutes and quintacutes as beyond the reach of an ordinary human being, and gave up the study in despair.
The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865
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Read as he might, poor John could not understand the ever-changing value of 'oxytones,' 'penacutes,' 'ternacutes,'
The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856
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Finding it absolutely impossible to get over the oxytones, he shrunk back from the quartacutes and quintacutes as beyond the reach of an ordinary human being, and gave up the study in despair.
The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856
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