Incantation vs Intonation - What's the difference?
incantation | intonation |
The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
A formula of words used as above.
(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
A thundering; thunder.
As nouns the difference between incantation and intonation
is that incantation is the act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results while intonation is (linguistics) the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.incantation
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Alternative forms
* encantationNoun
(en noun)intonation
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Noun
(en noun)- Her intonation was false.
- (Bailey)
