emphatically

UK /ɪmˈfætɪkli/ US /ɪmˈfætɪkli/
adv 3

Definitions

adv

1

In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.

Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.

2

Most definitely; truly.

He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

3

Not really, but apparently.

I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity

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