accentuation (aksentuashon)

[ A perpetual straining after the abstract idea or law of change, the constant accentuation , as it is called, of principle in historical writing, invariably marks a narrow view of truth, a want of mastery over details, and a bias towards foregone conclusions. Stubbs , Const. Hist., III. 518. There is no accentuation of the distinctively feminine charms [of Athena in the Par the non frieze); nay, from one aspect the head is almost boyish in character. The Century , XXVII. 179.