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emˈphatically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In an emphatic or forcible manner or sense; with emphasis; decidedly, decisively.
1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 69 Saying empheticallie, he determined. 1628Earle Microcosm. lvi. 152 And then they emphatically rail, and are emphatically beaten. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 128 The Rich poor Man's Emphatically Poor. 1711Steele Spect. No. 147 ⁋2, I heard the Service read..so emphatically, and so fervently. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. 1842 I. 9 It is always so; but was here emphatically so. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 258 Striking his cane emphatically on the ground. 1830Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 184 The most emphatically evangelical piety. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 58 William the Tyrant, as the local historian emphatically calls him.
†2. In a pregnant manner, allusively, suggestively. Obs. Cf. emphasis 1.
1658–9T. Wall Char. Enemies Ch. 18 Which Samuel does here emphatically insinuate. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 410 He often useth those words also emphatically, for ‘One only supreme God’.
†3. In appearance, as opposed to ‘in reality’ or ‘in fact’; cf. emphasis 7. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. ii. 235 What is delivered of their incurvitie, must..bee taken Emphatically, that is, not really but in appearance. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 127 Not emphatically, like the colours in a glass Prisme..but solidly and genuinly. 1775in Ash. |