"Oxytone" is a word in ENGLISH
A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent
on the last syllable.
An acute sound.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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Manager: Twenty teams in the league and you lot finish bottom ?Captain: Well, it could have been worse.Manager: How ?Captain: There could have been more teams in the league !
High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or …
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