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Intone vs Incant - What's the difference?

intone | incant |

As verbs the difference between intone and incant

is that intone is to give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize while incant is to state solemnly, to chant.

intone

English

Verb

(inton)
  • (lb) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  • (lb) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
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  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • (lb) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
  • Derived terms

    * intonable * intonate * intonation * intonational * intonationally * intonator * intonement * intoner

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    incant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To state solemnly, to chant.
  • To recite an incantation.
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