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  1. noun Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress: a lecture on housekeeping with emphasis on neatness; paused for emphasis, then announced the winner's name.
  2. noun Special attention or effort directed toward something: a small-town newspaper's emphasis on local affairs.
  3. noun Prominence given to a syllable, word, or words, as by raising the voice or printing in italic type.
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  • The emphasis is American, but a few British writers are discussed, notably Scotland's Ian Rankin, the creator of maverick cop John Rebus, one of the great characters in contemporary crime fiction now twenty years on the job. —  EQMM,June2007
  • So-cal accent - has a flippant tone to it, the emphasis is also at the end of the sentence it seems. every ends like it is a question. but of course not every so-cal kid has the accent - which is true of all places. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • With the choice of materials for EDAG's "Light Car - Open Source", the emphasis is also on innovative solutions. —  Automotive Headlines
  • FriendFeed is releasing a newly redesigned version of its service today (its second major one since launching), and the emphasis is all about viewing both freshly posted items and user discussions as they happen. —  Webware.com
  • And another point, it seems that an attempt to portray one news article as an example of liberal bias is the emphasis here, when the emphasis should be the story itself. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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earnestness ·  significance ·  accent ·  intensity ·  focus ·  tone ·  utterance ·  stress ·  vehemence ·  dignity ·  severity ·  irony

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emphasis:   emphases
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin, from Greek, from emphainein, to exhibit, display : en-, in; see en-2 + phainein, to show; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French emphase (later D. G. emphase = Danish emfase = Swedish emfas) = Spanish enfasis = Portuguese emphasis = Italian enfasi, emphasis, from Latin emphasis (in pure L. significatio(n-): see signification), from Greek ἐμφασις, an appearing in, outward appearance, a showing or letting a thing be seen as in a mirror (reflection, image), or as involved, hence, in rhetoric, pregnant suggestion, indirect indication, significance, emphasis, from ἐμφαίνειν, show forth, from ἐν in, + φαινειν, show, mid. φαίνεσθαι, appear, later φάσις, phase, appearance: see phase.
 

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