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Definition

to speak; or more rarely sing or play music

The exact meaning of intone can depend upon its context. It can mean:

intone = say in a chanting voice

The bailiff intones, "All Rise! Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! The Supreme Court of the Great State of Florida is now in session."

intones = says in a particular tone or pitch

"Under her leadership," a narrator intones, "the city has grown weaker and poorer."

intones = says in a serious manner

intones = says in a chanting voice

intones = says

How small is the earth to him who looks from heaven: Mrs Who intoned musically.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoned = said

"Nobody suffers here," Charles intoned.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoned = said

"What is a father?" Charles Wallace intoned. "Merely another misconception. If you feel the need of a father, then I would suggest that you turn to IT."
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoned = said

"Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis," Mrs Who intoned.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoned = said

Then she remembered that when they had been standing before the man with red eyes, and the man with red eyes had been intoning the multiplication table at them, Charles Wallace had fought against his power by shouting out nursery rhymes, and Calvin by the Gettysburg Address.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoning = saying

The closest she had come to the feeling before was when she had been practicing artificial respiration with Girl Scouts, and the leader, an immensely powerful woman, had been working on Meg, intoning OUT goes the bad air, IN comes the good! while her heavy hands pressed, released, pressed, released.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

intoning = saying

"I see," intoned Augur, looking from Cooper to Max.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
He paused—but only after he had intoned, and in a most sonorous and really beautiful voice the entire 51st Psalm.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Mothers intone his name to prod their kids to higher achievement.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
"General Service Administration," intoned a disinterested switchboard operator.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
The WOMEN enter, intoning the dirge 'Ale k le' and swaying from side to side.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
See how smart she was, she seems to intone as she compares the picture to my father.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
THOU SHALT NOT THINKEST ABOUT IT, he intoned.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
It is good to have form, he intoned.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
Mr. Quin .... intoned Wilkin.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway

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