Definition of "intonations" [intonations]

• Plural form of intonation. (noun)

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• "I must try to recall the intonations that came so naturally last evening, and see whether"
• "Her fear had been that time would dim her recollection of them, and her great joy was to discover that this was not so, and that she could recall the intonations of his voice and the colour of his eyes and the words he spoke to her, reliving them in imagination more intensely than while she was actually in his arms just before that terrible fall or in the shop and frightened lest Mrs. Ede or Ralph should come in and surprise them."
• "But he himself, he related, was now constantly employed in the same beneficence, listening two-thirds of his time to "intonations" and shrieks."