Inflexion

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of inflection. UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "[…] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have."

  2. 2
    a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function wordnet

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inflectioninflectionparadigm

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"[…] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have."

Etymology

From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.

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