CIRCUMFLEX INFLECTION.
In a circumflex the voice is made to bend so that it falls and rises, or rises and falls, during the utterance of a single sound. Circumflex inflection is used in expression of bitter irony or reproach.
EXAMPLES.
1. They offer us their protecˋtion. Yĕs, sŭch protection as vŭltures give to lămbs—covering and devouring themˋ.
2. Gone to be mărried! gone to swĕar a pĕace! gone to be frĭends!
3. He dâres not touch a hâir of Catalineˋ.
4. I may do what I shall be sorˋry for. You hâve done what you shoûld be sorˋry for.
5. So this is yŏu. How glăd I am to meet so trŭe a friend.