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INTONATION (_plural_ INTONATIONS)
* (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
* The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
* Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
_Her INTONATION was false._
* Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
* A thundering; thunder.
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intonation (plural intonations)
- (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
- Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
- Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
- A thundering; thunder.
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* intonation in _The Century Dictionary_, The Century Co., New York, 1911
* intonation in _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary_, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- intonation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- intonation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
