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INTONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intoned mean?
• INTONED (adjective)
The adjective INTONED has 1 sense:
1. uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting
Familiarity information: INTONED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting
Synonyms:
Context example:
a singsong manner of speaking
Similar:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
Context examples
He intoned a long whining rhyme in the French tongue, and at the end of every line he raised a thick cord, all jagged with pellets of lead, and smote his companion across the shoulders until the blood spurted again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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