emphatically

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  1. With emphasis or stress of voice.
  2. Significantly; forcibly; in a striking or impressive manner.
  3. Conspicuously; preëminently. The condition of the envious man is the most emphatically miserable. Steele, Spectator, No. 19. He was emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay. The doctrine that religion could be destined to pass through successive phases of development was pronounced to be emphatically unchristian. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 199.
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  • We should answer rest_--emphatically, and as an essential condition, rest_. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Once in Paris, in the opera, I used in jest emphatically the Russian word harrascho_, "good," when a Russian stranger in the next box smiled joyously, and rising, waved his glove to me. —  Memoirs
  • The little girl was hardly two Gertrude and her mother welcomed us rather emphatically--too emphatically, we felt. —  On the Stairs
  • Mrs. Allen said emphatically, and then added: "Oh, I see what you mean. —  The Winning Clue
  • Said Judge Douglas: "I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution. —  Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
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