vbl. sb. [f. ACCENT v. + -ING1.]
1. A pronouncing with accent or stress.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., V. xli. [It] perfects the sound and gives more sharp accenting.
1653. Walton, Angler, 106. The ill pronunciation or ill accenting of a word in a Sermon spoiles it.
2. The marking of the written accent.
1661. Boyle, Style of H. Script., 129. The strange Mysteries they fancy in the strange Accenting of the Ten Commandments in the Original.
3. Uttering or pronouncing; intoning.
1552. Huloet, Abcedarium, Accenting or trew pronouncyng or readyng: Accentus.
1657. T. May, The Life of a Satyrical Puppy called Nim, 41. O how he weigh’d each word to the very poyse of Accenting.
