1602 J. Colville Parænese 156 By à certane emphase or exaltation he vouchafit to call the vniuersall fayth to be thair fayth.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iii. iii. 48 There is also a great Emphase and significance in that terme יחד, which we render alike, but may as properly be rendered together.

1854 S. Austin Germany 1760–1814 315 Nor, perhaps, should we think him unpardonable if he had, after the struggle was over, viewed with some contempt..the emphase of patriotic exultation.

1882 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 323/2 We long..for less definition of outline, for less emphase, for half tints, for quiet places.

1906 Athenæum 17 Feb. 198/2 Our trumpeter displays throughout his letters the emphase of the times.

1973 G. Hartman in Romanticism i. 49 The early Rimbaud..soon becomes the Cézanne of French verse, stripping away affluent color and exotic decor, while substituting terse preachment for the emphase of Romantic predication.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. ii. 18 I..bid you most welcome. Lady F. And I beleeue your most, my prettie boy, Being so emphased, by you.

1664 H. Bold Poems 176 Me thinks the very note, doth seem to speak And Emphase every phrase: so kindly done.

1849 Holden's Dollar Mag. July 408/2 ‘If he places any confidence in your virtue’—here Burnycoat emphased again and more strongly than before.

1898 Economist 30 Apr. 653/2 It is by emphasing that fact and not by throwing ourselves..upon the mercy of the Conference..that we can exercise any beneficial influence upon its deliberations.

1947 Billboard 17 May 132/3 Ramon Littee..emphasing an accordion and string choir in his ensemble, gives a colorful and melodic interpretation of six Argentine tangos.