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Unstressed

adjective
1.
Not bearing a stress or accent.





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"Unstressed" Quotes from Famous Books



... The verse is, therefore, not strictly imitative in that it retains the Old English system of versification, but rather in that it attempts to suggest the Old English movement by the use of four principal stresses and a varying number of unstressed syllables. Morris's verse is the best of ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker


Words linked to "Unstressed" :   unaccented, stressed, feminine, unemphatic, weak, light


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