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Accentual

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to accent.

adj. Based on stress accents: accentual rhythm; accentual verse.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

adj. Designating verse rhythmss based on stress accents.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to accent; rhythmical.

n. An accent-mark.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity

adj. of or pertaining to accent or stress

Word Usage

"If this is done there will be in common English verse only two possible feetthe so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called Trochaic and Dactylic."

Cross Reference

accentual feet

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