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unemˈphatic, a. and n. (un-1 7.)
1800Monthly Mag. X. 317 An emphatic syllable is long; an unemphatic syllable, short. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Lect. Metaph. xxi. (1859) II. 19 The participle knowing is too vague and unemphatic to be employed. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 74 The general action..languid and unemphatic. b. As n. An unstressed syllable.
1815Monthly Mag. XXXIX. 118 The regular arrangement of their longs and shorts,..their emphatics and unemphatics. So unemˈphatical a. (Worcester, 1846, citing Brown), -ically adv. (Webster, 1847). |