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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:
- to say something somberly (slowly and seriously without much change in pitch)
- to speak or sing in a careful manner as with rising and falling pitch
- to say in a particular tone or pitch
- His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-comments: "They say there's a pretty good hike from Duluth to International Falls."Chapter 16 (12% in)
- Without understanding when or how, without a tangible change in the stilted intoning of the stage-puppets, she was conscious of another time and place.Chapter 17 (91% in)
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