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Emphasis

noun

(pl. emphases)

Special importance or significance. Synonym: accent. "The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

Intensity or forcefulness of expression. Synonym: vehemence. "His emphasis on civil rights"

Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g..

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch). Synonyms: accent, stress.

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"Emphasis" Quotes from Famous Books

... capable of taking care of myself," she said with emphasis, speaking each word slowly. She returned his steady gaze and felt a thrill of victory when he ...

— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... stands, and supplied with benches under the palms and magnolias. On three sides the streets gave views of the ocean. Many people were lounging about, but it was no place to stop and rest, for this party. No, not when the favorite hail said, "You're too late," and when, as emphasis, there lay the ...

— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin

... gives necessity in mutual dependence of parts (unity), while the reality demands the semblance (Schein) of liberty in the parts. He discusses very fully the beauty of nature as immediate unity of notion and reality, and lays great emphasis on the beauty of organic life. But it is in art that, like Schelling, Hegel finds the highest revelation of the beautiful. Art makes up for the deficiencies of natural beauty by bringing the idea ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... this essay where Macaulay aims to secure emphasis by the use of the following devices: inverted order in the sentences, the use of particular terms where the general would be more accurate, the use of superlatives, striking comparisons, repetition of ideas, contrast, balanced expressions, ...

— Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English - Based on the Requirements for Admission to College • Gilbert Sykes Blakely

... a wolf that answered," replied Shif'less Sol with sardonic emphasis, "but they had only four legs between 'em. Them was the signal cries of the Shawnees, an', as Tom has been tellin' you all the time, they're hot on our trail. It's a mighty lucky thing for us we didn't undertake to stay all night ...

— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

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