accensor (aksensor)

[ 2. A mark or character used in writing to direct the stre of the voice in pronunciation, or to mark a particular tone, length of vowel sound, or the like. There is commonly only one such sign (') used to mark the stre or accent in English, except in works on elocution, in which are employed the three Greek accents, namely, the acute ('), the grave('), and the circumflex (or). In elocution the first shows when the voice is to be raised, and is called the rising inflection; the second, when it is to be depre ed, and is called the falling inflection; and the third, when the vowel is to be uttered with an undulating sound, and is called the compound or waving inflection. An accent over the e in -ed is sometimes used in English poetry to denote that it is to be pronounced as a distinct syllable: as, lovèd or loved. 3. In printing, an accented or marked letter; a type bearing an accentual or diacritical mark. The accents most generally used in English type (chiefly for foreign words), and regularly furnished in a full font, are the vowels bearing the acute ('), grave ('), and circumflex (^) accents, and the dieresis ("), and also the cedilla or French c (c) and the Spanish n (n). Accents for occasional use are the vowels marked long () and short (*), and other marked letters required for technical works or peculiar to certain languages. 4. Manner of utterance; peculiarity of pronunciation, emphasis, or expre ion. Specifically, a peculiar modulation of the voice or manner of pronunciation, marked by subtle differences of elocution, characteristic the spoken language of a given district or a particular rank in society, and especially of each distinct nationality. IMG:content-0119.png:[blocks in formation] Winds! on your wings to heaven her accents bear, Such words as heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden, Virgil's Eclogues, iii. Deep on their souls the mighty accents fall, Like lead that pierces through the walls of clay. Jones Very, Poems, p. 77. accept