Syncope

Definitions

1. The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
   countable, uncountable
2. Obsolete spelling of syncope.
   alt-of, obsolete
3. A loss of consciousness when fainting.
   countable, uncountable
4. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…]; on the contrary, all syllables subject in the same way to elision, apocope, syncope, and slurring must have⟳ the same degree of stress⟳ (i.e. they must be alike unaccented) whether preceded by short or by long root-syllables.”

“Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, little by little, into a condition of semi-syncope, or half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir⟳, or, strictly speaking, to think⟳, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.”

“Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.”

“[…]the rapidly-whitening face⟳, the miserable fixed smile⟳, meant a syncope within the next few bars.”

“She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise⟳: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst⟳ into jazz, filling the quiet grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.”

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