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What (who) is intone - definition
intone
[?n't??n]
¦ verb say or recite with little rise and fall of the pitch of the voice.
Derivatives
intoner noun
Origin
C15 (orig. as entone): from OFr. entoner or med. L. intonare, from in- 'into' + L. tonus 'tone'.
intone
(intones, intoning, intoned)
If you intone something, you say it in a slow and serious way, with most of the words at one pitch. (WRITTEN)
He quietly intoned several prayers...
'But Jesus is here!' the priest intoned.
= chant
VERB: V n, V with quote
Examples of use of intone
1. Such a diagnosis is impossible, dietitians intone.
2. The first thing to do, as Mrs Beeton would undoubtedly intone, is find your Tesco.
3. The atmosphere is somber despite the tight spaces, and the students sway as they intone methodically over the Koran.
4. That‘s everyone from the joshing front–line muscle with whom she rides to a solution–seeking bureaucrat who peers back at Royte with narrowed eyes to intone that "it‘s not garbage, it‘s waste." Along the way, the reader learns.
5. By Alex Fak Staff Writer When the Soviet state made millions of schoolchildren intone on the first day of class, "Thank you, the Party, for our bright future," it could hardly have imagined that the brainwashing scheme would turn against its successors.