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Inflexion

noun

A change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function. Synonym: inflection.

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... that the delivery of their dialogue resembled the modern recitative. For such a conjecture there is no other foundation than the fact that the Greek, like almost all southern languages, was pronounced with a greater musical inflexion than ours of the North. In other respects their tragic declamation must, I conceive, have been altogether unlike recitative, being both much more measured, and also far removed from ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

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... how strangely you do mix! Well may Hallam call Germany the native soil of Mysticism. Had Behmen been the least of a scholar, he would not have divided sulph-ur and merc-ur-i-us as he has done: and the inflexion us, that boy of all work, would have been rejected. I think it will be held that a writer from whom hundreds of pages like the above could be brought together, is fit for the Budget. If Sampson Arnold Mackay[600] had tied ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

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... this to be a challenge, she leaned back in her chair and said "Isabel Irish" with very little charity of inflexion. ...

— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee

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