emphasisn.

Brit.

/ˈɛmfəsɪs/, U.S.

/ˈɛmfəsəs/

Inflections: Plural emphases.

Forms: 1500s–1600s emphesis, 1500s– emphasis.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin emphasis.

Etymology: < classical Latin emphasis (in rhetoric) use of language in such a way as to imply more than is said (Quintilian), in post-classical Latin also appearance (5th cent.), (in rhetoric) stress (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ἔμϕασις outward appearance, reflection, meaning, significance, in Hellenistic Greek also exposition, narration < ἐμ- , variant (before a labial) of ἐν- en- prefix¹ + ϕάσις (see phasis n.), after ἐμϕαίνειν to exhibit, display, indicate (mediopassive ἐμϕαίνεσθαι to be seen, to become visible). Compare Middle French, French emphase (1543 in rhetoric, a1655 in sense ‘exaggeration in the manner of expressing oneself’, a1741 in sense ‘exaggerated solemnness’), Spanish énfasis (a1539), Portuguese ênfase (1540 as †emphasdim), Italian enfasi (beginning of the 14th cent.; rare before 1529); also German Emphase (1531, in early use with Latin inflectional endings).

I. Uses as a rhetorical term, and senses derived from these.

1. Rhetoric. The use of language in such a way as to imply more than is said; an instance of this; a meaning not inherent in the words used, but conveyed by implication. Now rare.The usual sense in Greek and Latin. Quintilian (8. 3. 84) illustrates this meaning of emphasis by citing how Virgil ( Aeneid 3. 631) indicates the vast size of the Cyclops by saying that he ‘lay along the cavern’ (iacuit..per antrum).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > implying more than is actually said

emphasis1534

renforcer1589

1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 54 In this worde, Senium, is emphasis, which is a figure eyther whan somthing, that is hidden and not spoken, is meaned, or elles whan it is spoken for a more expresse, plain, and stronge setting out and expressing of a thing.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 153 To inforce the sence of any thing by a word of more than ordinary efficacie..[the meaning of which] is not apparant, but as it were, secretly implyed. [Note] Emphasis, or the Renforcer.

1603 G. Downame Treat. conc. Antichrist ii. ii. 13 When we say, ὁ βασιλεὺς [i.e. a king]..and meane therby not indifferently any king but by an Emphasis that Prince to whom we are subiect.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed i. 303 The Lord of that Temple in the emphasis of an Hebrew Article was Christ.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iii. 8 There might be an emphasis in those words of Moses, which has not of late been at all understood.

1856 J. S. Watson tr. Quintilian Inst. Oratory II. viii. iii. 106 A beauty akin to the preceding, but of higher merit, is emphasis, which intimates a deeper meaning than the words used actually express.

1998 P. Rollinson & R. Geckle Guide Classical Rhetoric 133 Emphasis either means more than it says or something it does not say.

2. Originally Rhetoric.

a. Stress given to a word or phrase when speaking to indicate particular importance or (sometimes) to indicate that it implies something more than, or different from, what it normally expresses; an instance of this. In later use also: such stress as indicated in written language by typographical conventions, such as underlining or italics. Also occasionally: stress given to a syllable as part of the pronunciation of a word.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > emphasis

emphasis1534

emphase1602

1543 T. Becon Inuectyue agenst Swearing f. xvi^v God speaketh these wordes wythe a maruelous great & vehement emphasis.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xviii. 213 Let them also be taught carefully, in what word the Emphasis lyeth; and therefore which is to be eleuated in the pronuntiation.

a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iii. sig. D3 You're welcome Mistriss..but my Lord will give it a sweeter Emphasis: Ile give him knowledge of you.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 221 If this Word of great Emphasis be Set in the Lower Case, yet he Sets the first Letter a Capital.

1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 26 When we..distinguish any particular Word in a Sentence, it is called Emphasis.

1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. i. §3 Mark the pauses and emphases by the new signs.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 21 Peggotty said, with greater emphasis than usual, that,..she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater.

1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 390 The reiterated headings, italic emphasis, and minute details, so peculiar to the American journals.

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 120 An emphasis out of place..reminds one of the underscorings in young ladies' letters.

1930 D. Hammett Maltese Falcon vii. 74 He talked in a steady matter-of-fact voice that was devoid of emphasis or pauses.

1978 Western Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 3 86/2 ‘Greater private demand..must be higher to maintain participation’ (emphasis added).

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 4/2 Underlining particular words and syllables to indicate emphasis.

b. The manner in which emphasis (sense 2a) is given to a speech, passage, etc.; the degree or type of emphasis so given.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > emphasis > manner of

emphasis1590

1590 W. James Serm. Paules Crosse ii. sig. F.1 A speech of great Emphasis, euery word carying his iust waight.

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 124 Thou speak'st so feelingly, I wis, With such a tickling Emphasis.

1725 Bp. Derry Let. 21 Sept. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 338 Upon this day's delivery of the enclosed Speech from the Throne (which was done with as graceful an emphasis as I ever heard).

1830 A. M. Porter Barony I. 264 He spoke with stern emphasis, every vein in his high, pale forehead swelling with indignant remembrances.

1880 M. A. Paull Leyton Auberry's Daughters iii. 28 He opened [the book] at a certain page, and then read with peculiar emphasis as follows.

1906 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 10/1 Pronounced slowly and with the proper emphasis, ‘gongoozler’ merits a very high place in the vocabulary of opprobrium.

2012 C. DeSanti Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. vi. 73 Nathalie Jouffroy turned again as she neared the door, spoke with slow emphasis.

a. Force or intensity of expression.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun]

eloquence1382

elocution1509

gravity?1520

pith?1531

vigour1532

emphasy1548

energy?1549

emphasisa1555

pithiness1557

abruptness1591

emphaticalness1647

nervousness1727

cogency1750

forcibility1771

cogence1782

verve1803

forcefulness1825

force1842

snap1870

full-bloodedness1894

punch1901

compulsiveness1918

punchiness1938

a1555 N. Ridley Certein Conf. Ridley & Latimer (1556) f. 7^v These wordes (by his owne person) haue an Emphasis or vehemence which driueth awaye all sacrificinge priestes frome suche office off sacrificinge.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 32 The veri causis..he knew fully as wel as mi self, with a good larg emphasis, I warrant you.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xii. §2. 335 To expresse, with a greater Emphasis, the incredible power of Musick.

1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ ii. 51 Tertullian doth add the greater Emphasis to his Argument.

1725 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics I. i. ii. 67 That noble historian makes use of a select variety of synonymous words to express with all possible emphasis that universal and remediless mischief.

1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 572/2 She ceased to challenge notice by the emphasis of her solicitations.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 114 He is the most trenchant writer in the world, yet there is not a sentence of strained emphasis or overwrought antithesis.

1913 M. L. Obenauer Working Hours of Women in Pea Canneries of Wisconsin 18 For the sake of emphasis it might be stated again that [etc.].

1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger iii. 37 The fingers move almost independently,..dancing on the coffee table for emphasis.

2001 L. Parshall in tr. C. C. L. Hirschfeld Theory of Garden Art Introd. 52 Hirschfeld is also fond of using two words with very similar meanings as a way of providing emphasis.

†b. A statement having such force; an emphatic expression. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quot. 1602 at emphase n., in the same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > outstanding > expression

emphasisa1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 67 Be choak'd with such another Emphasis .

†4. Intensity, forcefulness; an amplification of something. Obsolete.Quot. 1604 may show sense 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or intensity of action

keenness1600

emphasis1604

roundness1616

vigoura1630

vivacity1652

intensity1830

incision1862

intensiveness1892

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 251 What is he whose griefe Beares such an emphesis .

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 54 The diligence of wicked persons be so much to be blamed, as that it is onely an Emphasis and Exaggeration of their wickednesse.

1665 D. Lloyd States-men & Favourites Eng. 23 It's the emphasis of misery, to be too soon happy.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 7 Are they not..by an emphasis of int'rest his?

1838 Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 246/1 Who but would hug the shadows of the tomb, If life were such an emphasis of gloom?

1869 Utah Mag. 19 June 108/2 The strong workings of a laboring mind lined his face, and held back his wonted emphasis of conduct in statuary silence.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. x. 181 His tall thin figure clad in a way which, not being strictly English, was all the worse for its apparent emphasis of intention.

5. Particular importance, value, or prominence given to something; the priority or focus of something. Also as a count noun. Frequently with on.Now the most common sense.In quot. 1687: an observation of the importance of something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence > types of

emphasis1650

exemplariness1650

stress1653

misemphasis1893

1650 N. Homes Dæmonol. & Theol. 90 The Apostle, Heb. 1.1. puts an emphasis on Christ speaking.

1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 37 A Flower not to be pass'd over without an Emphasis.

1754 Life & Hist. Ld. Bolingbroke 21 He laid great Emphasis on the Advantages granted in Favour of the Prince of Wales.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 61 My laying emphasis on the previous effect of the vaccine inoculation.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvi. 269 A slight matter, not worth dwelling on with any emphasis.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 49 Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.

1912 Graduate Mag. Univ. Kansas Mar. 226/1 Special emphasis was put on the scientific side.

1935 Rotarian Jan. 36/1 The emphasis of all school expenditure must be directed toward providing much better pay for the school-room worker.

1956 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 6 Nov. (1995) 255 I think it requires rather the older art of the reading ‘mime’, than the more nearly dramatic, which results in too great an emphasis on dialogue.

2000 Marie Claire July 39/1 She walks in a way that gives emphasis to the rear-end.

2011 Independent 8 Nov. 4/4 Jackson..altered live performance for ever. His emphasis on dance with high-energy choreography, can be seen in most pop gigs today.

a. Sharpness of contour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [noun] > contour(s) > sharpness of contour

emphasis1872

1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands Introd. 22 You never saw a Ben rising bolt upright with a more distinct emphasis.

1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands 65 The bones which mark the features..lose their emphasis.

1946 E. B. d'Auverne tr. C. Roger-Marx Vuillard 199 It hardly is a chiaroscuro but rather a moderate atmosphere where the high lights are dimmed, the shadows lose their emphasis.

1975 R. R. Holloway Infl. & Styles Late Archaic & Early Classical Greek Sculpt. Sicily & Magna Graecia i. 8 The mouths of these heads, especially, lose their emphasis and the features no longer balance the other spaces in the face.

†b. A protrusion. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part

hornc1275

outshooting1310

nosec1400

startc1400

spout1412

snouta1425

outbearingc1425

outstanding?c1425

relish1428

jeta1500

rising1525

shoulder1545

jutting1565

outshootc1565

prominence1578

forecast1580

projection1592

sprout1598

eye1600

shooting forth1601

lip1608

juttying1611

prominent?1611

eminence1615

butting1625

excursiona1626

elbow1626

protrusion1646

jettinga1652

outjetting1652

prominency1654

eminency1668

nouch1688

issuanta1690

out-butting1730

outjet1730

out-jutting1730

flange1735

nosing1773

process1775

jut1787

projecture1803

nozzle1804

saliency1831

ajutment1834

salience1837

out-thrust1842

emphasis1885

cleat1887

outjut1893

pseudopodiuma1902

1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 526/2 An..oriel-window, the base of which is formed by a gradual emphasis of the brick wall.

†II. Senses relating to deceptive visual appearance.

7. A deceptive visual appearance; an illusion. Cf. emphatical adj. 6. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion

phantasma1398

emphasis1654

optical illusion1763

fata Morgana1818

trompe l'œil1889

1654 G. Wharton Hemeroscopeion ii. 15 Some thinke Comets..a meere Emphasis or apparency, made by the refl[e]ction or Refraction of the Sun or Moons Rayes.

1683 I. Mather Κομετογραϕια i. 5 The opinion of Panælius, who thought that a Comet was a meer Emphasis, or Parelion.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	emphasis
释义	emphasisn. Brit. /ˈɛmfəsɪs/, U.S. /ˈɛmfəsəs/ Inflections: Plural emphases. Forms: 1500s–1600s emphesis, 1500s– emphasis. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin emphasis. Etymology: < classical Latin emphasis (in rhetoric) use of language in such a way as to imply more than is said (Quintilian), in post-classical Latin also appearance (5th cent.), (in rhetoric) stress (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ἔμϕασις outward appearance, reflection, meaning, significance, in Hellenistic Greek also exposition, narration < ἐμ- , variant (before a labial) of ἐν- en- prefix¹ + ϕάσις (see phasis n.), after ἐμϕαίνειν to exhibit, display, indicate (mediopassive ἐμϕαίνεσθαι to be seen, to become visible). Compare Middle French, French emphase (1543 in rhetoric, a1655 in sense ‘exaggeration in the manner of expressing oneself’, a1741 in sense ‘exaggerated solemnness’), Spanish énfasis (a1539), Portuguese ênfase (1540 as †emphasdim), Italian enfasi (beginning of the 14th cent.; rare before 1529); also German Emphase (1531, in early use with Latin inflectional endings). I. Uses as a rhetorical term, and senses derived from these. 1. Rhetoric. The use of language in such a way as to imply more than is said; an instance of this; a meaning not inherent in the words used, but conveyed by implication. Now rare.The usual sense in Greek and Latin. Quintilian (8. 3. 84) illustrates this meaning of emphasis by citing how Virgil ( Aeneid 3. 631) indicates the vast size of the Cyclops by saying that he ‘lay along the cavern’ (iacuit..per antrum). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > implying more than is actually said emphasis1534 renforcer1589 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 54 In this worde, Senium, is emphasis, which is a figure eyther whan somthing, that is hidden and not spoken, is meaned, or elles whan it is spoken for a more expresse, plain, and stronge setting out and expressing of a thing. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 153 To inforce the sence of any thing by a word of more than ordinary efficacie..[the meaning of which] is not apparant, but as it were, secretly implyed. [Note] Emphasis, or the Renforcer. 1603 G. Downame Treat. conc. Antichrist ii. ii. 13 When we say, ὁ βασιλεὺς [i.e. a king]..and meane therby not indifferently any king but by an Emphasis that Prince to whom we are subiect. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed i. 303 The Lord of that Temple in the emphasis of an Hebrew Article was Christ. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iii. 8 There might be an emphasis in those words of Moses, which has not of late been at all understood. 1856 J. S. Watson tr. Quintilian Inst. Oratory II. viii. iii. 106 A beauty akin to the preceding, but of higher merit, is emphasis, which intimates a deeper meaning than the words used actually express. 1998 P. Rollinson & R. Geckle Guide Classical Rhetoric 133 Emphasis either means more than it says or something it does not say. 2. Originally Rhetoric. a. Stress given to a word or phrase when speaking to indicate particular importance or (sometimes) to indicate that it implies something more than, or different from, what it normally expresses; an instance of this. In later use also: such stress as indicated in written language by typographical conventions, such as underlining or italics. Also occasionally: stress given to a syllable as part of the pronunciation of a word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > emphasis emphasis1534 emphase1602 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 54 In this worde, Senium, is emphasis, which is a figure eyther whan somthing, that is hidden and not spoken, is meaned, or elles whan it is spoken for a more expresse, plain, and stronge setting out and expressing of a thing. 1543 T. Becon Inuectyue agenst Swearing f. xvi^v God speaketh these wordes wythe a maruelous great & vehement emphasis. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xviii. 213 Let them also be taught carefully, in what word the Emphasis lyeth; and therefore which is to be eleuated in the pronuntiation. a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iii. sig. D3 You're welcome Mistriss..but my Lord will give it a sweeter Emphasis: Ile give him knowledge of you. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 221 If this Word of great Emphasis be Set in the Lower Case, yet he Sets the first Letter a Capital. 1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 26 When we..distinguish any particular Word in a Sentence, it is called Emphasis. 1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. i. §3 Mark the pauses and emphases by the new signs. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) iii. 21 Peggotty said, with greater emphasis than usual, that,..she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater. 1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 390 The reiterated headings, italic emphasis, and minute details, so peculiar to the American journals. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 120 An emphasis out of place..reminds one of the underscorings in young ladies' letters. 1930 D. Hammett Maltese Falcon vii. 74 He talked in a steady matter-of-fact voice that was devoid of emphasis or pauses. 1978 Western Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 3 86/2 ‘Greater private demand..must be higher to maintain participation’ (emphasis added). 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 4/2 Underlining particular words and syllables to indicate emphasis. b. The manner in which emphasis (sense 2a) is given to a speech, passage, etc.; the degree or type of emphasis so given. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > emphasis > manner of emphasis1590 1590 W. James Serm. Paules Crosse ii. sig. F.1 A speech of great Emphasis, euery word carying his iust waight. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 124 Thou speak'st so feelingly, I wis, With such a tickling Emphasis. 1725 Bp. Derry Let. 21 Sept. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 338 Upon this day's delivery of the enclosed Speech from the Throne (which was done with as graceful an emphasis as I ever heard). 1830 A. M. Porter Barony I. 264 He spoke with stern emphasis, every vein in his high, pale forehead swelling with indignant remembrances. 1880 M. A. Paull Leyton Auberry's Daughters iii. 28 He opened [the book] at a certain page, and then read with peculiar emphasis as follows. 1906 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 10/1 Pronounced slowly and with the proper emphasis, ‘gongoozler’ merits a very high place in the vocabulary of opprobrium. 2012 C. DeSanti Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. vi. 73 Nathalie Jouffroy turned again as she neared the door, spoke with slow emphasis. 3. a. Force or intensity of expression. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] eloquence1382 elocution1509 gravity?1520 pith?1531 vigour1532 emphasy1548 energy?1549 emphasisa1555 pithiness1557 abruptness1591 emphaticalness1647 nervousness1727 cogency1750 forcibility1771 cogence1782 verve1803 forcefulness1825 force1842 snap1870 full-bloodedness1894 punch1901 compulsiveness1918 punchiness1938 a1555 N. Ridley Certein Conf. Ridley & Latimer (1556) f. 7^v These wordes (by his owne person) haue an Emphasis or vehemence which driueth awaye all sacrificinge priestes frome suche office off sacrificinge. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 32 The veri causis..he knew fully as wel as mi self, with a good larg emphasis, I warrant you. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xii. §2. 335 To expresse, with a greater Emphasis, the incredible power of Musick. 1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ ii. 51 Tertullian doth add the greater Emphasis to his Argument. 1725 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics I. i. ii. 67 That noble historian makes use of a select variety of synonymous words to express with all possible emphasis that universal and remediless mischief. 1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 572/2 She ceased to challenge notice by the emphasis of her solicitations. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 114 He is the most trenchant writer in the world, yet there is not a sentence of strained emphasis or overwrought antithesis. 1913 M. L. Obenauer Working Hours of Women in Pea Canneries of Wisconsin 18 For the sake of emphasis it might be stated again that [etc.]. 1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger iii. 37 The fingers move almost independently,..dancing on the coffee table for emphasis. 2001 L. Parshall in tr. C. C. L. Hirschfeld Theory of Garden Art Introd. 52 Hirschfeld is also fond of using two words with very similar meanings as a way of providing emphasis. †b. A statement having such force; an emphatic expression. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quot. 1602 at emphase n., in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > outstanding > expression emphasisa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 67 Be choak'd with such another Emphasis . View more context for this quotation †4. Intensity, forcefulness; an amplification of something. Obsolete.Quot. 1604 may show sense 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or intensity of action keenness1600 emphasis1604 roundness1616 vigoura1630 vivacity1652 intensity1830 incision1862 intensiveness1892 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 251 What is he whose griefe Beares such an emphesis . View more context for this quotation 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 54 The diligence of wicked persons be so much to be blamed, as that it is onely an Emphasis and Exaggeration of their wickednesse. 1665 D. Lloyd States-men & Favourites Eng. 23 It's the emphasis of misery, to be too soon happy. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 7 Are they not..by an emphasis of int'rest his? 1838 Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 246/1 Who but would hug the shadows of the tomb, If life were such an emphasis of gloom? 1869 Utah Mag. 19 June 108/2 The strong workings of a laboring mind lined his face, and held back his wonted emphasis of conduct in statuary silence. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. x. 181 His tall thin figure clad in a way which, not being strictly English, was all the worse for its apparent emphasis of intention. 5. Particular importance, value, or prominence given to something; the priority or focus of something. Also as a count noun. Frequently with on.Now the most common sense.In quot. 1687: an observation of the importance of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence > types of emphasis1650 exemplariness1650 stress1653 misemphasis1893 1650 N. Homes Dæmonol. & Theol. 90 The Apostle, Heb. 1.1. puts an emphasis on Christ speaking. 1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 37 A Flower not to be pass'd over without an Emphasis. 1754 Life & Hist. Ld. Bolingbroke 21 He laid great Emphasis on the Advantages granted in Favour of the Prince of Wales. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 61 My laying emphasis on the previous effect of the vaccine inoculation. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvi. 269 A slight matter, not worth dwelling on with any emphasis. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 49 Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. 1912 Graduate Mag. Univ. Kansas Mar. 226/1 Special emphasis was put on the scientific side. 1935 Rotarian Jan. 36/1 The emphasis of all school expenditure must be directed toward providing much better pay for the school-room worker. 1956 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 6 Nov. (1995) 255 I think it requires rather the older art of the reading ‘mime’, than the more nearly dramatic, which results in too great an emphasis on dialogue. 2000 Marie Claire July 39/1 She walks in a way that gives emphasis to the rear-end. 2011 Independent 8 Nov. 4/4 Jackson..altered live performance for ever. His emphasis on dance with high-energy choreography, can be seen in most pop gigs today. 6. a. Sharpness of contour. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > contour(s) > sharpness of contour emphasis1872 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands Introd. 22 You never saw a Ben rising bolt upright with a more distinct emphasis. 1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands 65 The bones which mark the features..lose their emphasis. 1946 E. B. d'Auverne tr. C. Roger-Marx Vuillard 199 It hardly is a chiaroscuro but rather a moderate atmosphere where the high lights are dimmed, the shadows lose their emphasis. 1975 R. R. Holloway Infl. & Styles Late Archaic & Early Classical Greek Sculpt. Sicily & Magna Graecia i. 8 The mouths of these heads, especially, lose their emphasis and the features no longer balance the other spaces in the face. †b. A protrusion. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part hornc1275 outshooting1310 nosec1400 startc1400 spout1412 snouta1425 outbearingc1425 outstanding?c1425 relish1428 jeta1500 rising1525 shoulder1545 jutting1565 outshootc1565 prominence1578 forecast1580 projection1592 sprout1598 eye1600 shooting forth1601 lip1608 juttying1611 prominent?1611 eminence1615 butting1625 excursiona1626 elbow1626 protrusion1646 jettinga1652 outjetting1652 prominency1654 eminency1668 nouch1688 issuanta1690 out-butting1730 outjet1730 out-jutting1730 flange1735 nosing1773 process1775 jut1787 projecture1803 nozzle1804 saliency1831 ajutment1834 salience1837 out-thrust1842 emphasis1885 cleat1887 outjut1893 pseudopodiuma1902 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 526/2 An..oriel-window, the base of which is formed by a gradual emphasis of the brick wall. †II. Senses relating to deceptive visual appearance. 7. A deceptive visual appearance; an illusion. Cf. emphatical adj. 6. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion phantasma1398 emphasis1654 optical illusion1763 fata Morgana1818 trompe l'œil1889 1654 G. Wharton Hemeroscopeion ii. 15 Some thinke Comets..a meere Emphasis or apparency, made by the refl[e]ction or Refraction of the Sun or Moons Rayes. 1683 I. Mather Κομετογραϕια i. 5 The opinion of Panælius, who thought that a Comet was a meer Emphasis, or Parelion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1534
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