Accent

1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
2. A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation;
3. Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.

   The tender accent of a woman's cry.

4. A word; a significant tone

   Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

5. Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. (Pros.)
6. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. (Mus.)
7. A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y′, y″. (Math.)

imp. & p. p. Accented; p. pr. & vb. n. Accenting

1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.