单词 | emphatically |
释义 | emphaticallyadv. 1. a. In an emphatic or forceful way; with emphasis. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adverb] largec1405 sensibly?a1425 eloquently1471 fectuallyc1485 in largea1500 pithily1533 enforcingly1571 emphatically1577 nervously1641 sensible1659 nervosely1678 forcefullya1774 cogentlya1797 accentedly1856 tersely1874 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. v. sig. Ggg.iijv/2 Thou doest not read: Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serue..: But, Thou shalte feare the Lorde thy God, and him (Emphatically [L. emphatice]) shalte thou serue. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Kiii Saying empheticallie, he determined. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. viii. 239 All the five Protopatriarchs used more Emphatically to be caled universal Bishops. 1663 A. Cowley Verses Several Occasions 51 The poor rich man's emphatically poor. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 147. ⁋2 I heard the Service read..so emphatically, and so fervently. 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 547/2 Repetition, in rhetoric, a figure which gracefully and emphatically repeats either the same word, or the same sense in different words. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 258 Striking his cane emphatically on the ground. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 58 William the Tyrant, as the local historian emphatically calls him. 1928 R. Cullum Myst. Barren Lands xi. 106 ‘Think you'll ever get it?’.. ‘Sure,’ he said emphatically. ‘Just as sure as——death.’ 1972 Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 3/4 Mrs. Margaret Whitlam today emphatically denied that she had referred..to journalists as ‘nongs’. 2011 Daily Tel. 11 July 22/6 Terry doesn't have any truck with the idea that it is unfeminist to sport heels. ‘Heels are completely empowering,’ he states emphatically. b. Without doubt; decidedly, clearly, absolutely. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [adverb] trulyOE boldlyc1175 sickerlyc1275 tristly1340 redelya1375 redilya1375 surelyc1380 tristilyc1380 certainc1384 faithfullyc1384 trustilyc1390 certainlya1400 trustlya1400 undoubtinglyc1400 absolutely?a1425 positivelyc1443 assuredly1508 traist1508 traistfully1508 crousea1525 constantlya1538 resolutely1540 suredly1551 trestly1568 cocksure1579 resolvedly1610 assurantly1619 emphatically1629 decretorily1660 convincedly1812 unmisgivingly1842 solid1937 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) v. sig. C2v And then they emphatically raile, and are emphatically beaten. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 139 In all tacit posies of His ascention this figure..is most emphatically significant. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 28 It is always so; but was here emphatically so. 1830 J. Foster Let. 30 Apr. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 184 The most emphatically evangelical piety. 1850 G. G. Foster N.Y. by Gas-light vi. 49 He has, however, lots of friends and good ones; and with the boys he is emphatically ‘cock of the walk’. 1912 F. A. Steel King-Errant i. 30 It was too much! It was not fair! It was emphatically not the game! 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Sept. 265 If armaments are not acceptable to the pacifist, does this mean that he will..meekly resign himself to what he considers evil? The answer is emphatically no. 1994 Ricky McMountain Buyer's Guide (Weston, Ont.) Summer 12/1 Make them [sc. butter tarts] with a touch of maple syrup and be emphatically Canadian. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > allusively or suggestively emphatically1603 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 800 Φορα, that is to say, the motion, expresseth emphatically some affection, action, or power of the minde [Fr. le mouuement donne à entendre quelque affection, ou action, ou puissance; Gk. καὶ πάλιν ἡ ϕορὰ πάθους τινὸς ἐμϕαντικὸν ἢ πράξεως ἢ δυνάμεως]. 1658 T. Wall God's Revenge 18 Which Samuel does here emphatically insinuate in my Text, by this particle Now. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 410 He often useth those words also Emphatically, for One only Supreme God. 1765 T. Percy Reliques III. p. vi As the Songs of Chivalry became the most popular compositions in that language, they were emphatically called Romans or Romants. 1799 Compan. Bullock's Mus. 15 The word Taboo is used, emphatically, to denote any thing sacred, eminent, or devoted. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adverb] > seemingly or apparently > of colours emphatically1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. ii. 235 What is delivered of their incurvitie, must..bee taken Emphatically, that is, not really but in appearance. View more context for this quotation 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 127 Not emphatically, like the colours in a glass Prisme..but solidly & genuinly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1577 |
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