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  • adjective Not accentuated.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ accentuated

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Examples

  • The majority of our actions occur regularly, lack dynamism and are unaccentuated.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • When an accentuated beat is struck in relation to one or more unaccentuated beats, there arises a rhythmic unit.

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • The unaccentuated syllables of words are very liable to be either omitted, slurred or corrupted, and there is no word in the language more frequently and unjustly treated in this respect than the conjunction -- _and_.

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • Lord Dunholm, a man of far-reaching and clear logic, had realised that the oddly unaccentuated growth of intercourse between the two countries might be a subject to be reflected on without lightness.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • The musicians had caught that unaccentuated and sensuous swing of the melody which the soft, tropical atmosphere rendered still more languorous.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The musicians had caught that unaccentuated and sensuous swing of the melody which the soft, tropical atmosphere rendered still more languorous.

    Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The musicians had caught that unaccentuated and sensuous swing of the melody which the soft, tropical atmosphere rendered still more languorous.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Accentuated syllables alternate regularly with unaccentuated, whereby the penultimate has the accent; and the poetic accent always coincides with the grammatical, as in Syriac poetry and in the Greek verse of early Christian times, the structure of which was copied from the Syriac.

    The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

  • In the quiet, unaccentuated manner in which she had given her own share in the action she gave Diane's.

    The Inner Shrine Basil King 1893

  • Lord Dunholm, a man of far-reaching and clear logic, had realised that the oddly unaccentuated growth of intercourse between the two countries might be a subject to be reflected on without lightness.

    The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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