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What does accentuation mean?

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Noun
  1. Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
  2. (music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
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A different kind of divergence occurs when the accentuation of words changes.
Time has revealed that the pairs of sixteenths in the Gloria and the Te Deum are not daunting but comfortable for good rhythmic accentuation.
And the price of buying short term relief would be the accentuation of long term pressures.
All papers dealing with the accentuation of Balto-Slavic, Slavic, or various Baltic and Slavic languages are welcomed.
Such accentuation of nonpolitical aspects of civil society provoked two major criticisms.
Inverted dotting was also used by some 17th-century English composers, because it suits the accentuation of the English language.

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