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Emphatically   /ɛmfˈætɪkli/  /ɛmfˈætɪkəli/   Listen
Emphatically

adverb
1.
Without question and beyond doubt.  Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, in spades, unquestionably.  "She told him off in spades" , "By all odds they should win"






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"Emphatically" Quotes from Famous Books



... brows of Simon Slade contracted a little. "No, sir!" he replied, emphatically. "The till is safer under his care than it would be in that of one man in ten. The boy comes, sir, of honest parents. Simon Slade never wronged anybody ...
— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur

... Weeks remarked emphatically. "It would be a pity if you couldn't get along with such a respectable, conscientious woman as Mrs. Mumpson, who comes from one of the best families ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe

... no point, on which medical men so emphatically lift the voice of warning, as in reference to administering medicines to infants. It is so difficult to discover what is the matter with an infant, its frame is so delicate and so susceptible, and slight causes have such a powerful influence, that it requires the utmost skill and ...
— A Treatise on Domestic Economy - For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School • Catherine Esther Beecher

... went out suddenly overhead, leaving only one burning; the breeze blew soft and cool, and six bells sounded sharply and emphatically in the quiet of ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

... had arrived for Elsie to be firm. 'I have no prejudice against trade, Brownie,' she observed emphatically; 'but I do draw ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen


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