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account of meaning

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  • Verb
    1. (transitive, obsolete) To esteem; to prize; to value.
      1. Valentine. I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. / Speed. That's because the one is painted, and the other out of all count. / Valentine. How painted? and how out of count? / Speed. Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. / Valentine. How esteem'st thou me? I account of her beauty. / Speed. You never saw her since she was deformed?
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    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.
      • [ …] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, [ …]
      • In this solid account of the calamitous effect of dry utopianism on New York City, Lerner explains how the Prohibition amendment was passed and why its execution failed.

Meaning of account of for the defined word.

Grammatically, this idiom "account of" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal verb. It's also a verb, more specifically, a phrasal verb and a transitive verb.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Phrases
      • Phrasal verbs
        • Phrasal verbs with particle (of)
      • Verbs
        • Phrasal verbs
          • Phrasal verbs with particle (of)
          • Transitive verbs
        Definiteness: Level 1
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        Other Vocabulary

        Look-Alike Words
        1. en account to
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