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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

... somehow misunderstood the former communication, and it was therefore repeated with emphasis. Like a model father who walks the floor with the weeping child, tenderly seeking the offending pin, I looked over the engine. "What have I neglected?" said I. I intended to be quite logical ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... life with an entirely different one. It laid persistent emphasis upon man's existence after death, which it declared infinitely more important than his brief sojourn in the body. Under the influence of the Church this conception of life had gradually supplanted the pagan one in the Roman world, and it was taught to the barbarians. The other-worldliness ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... same reasons that induced Bellarmine to embrace Congruism probably led the Jesuit General Claudius Aquaviva, in 1613, to order all teachers of theology in the Society to lay greater emphasis on the Congruistic element in the notion of efficacious grace. This measure was quite in harmony with the principles defended by the Jesuit members of the Congregatio de Auxiliis before Clement VIII and Paul V. Aquaviva's order is ...

— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

... all emphasis be put here upon personal responsibility and opportunity. Be a missionary yourself. Reach and teach some one of these newcomers, and you will do your part. Do not begin with talking about religion. Make the chance to get acquainted; then after you have shown ...

— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... my lord, it does matter!" She always called him my lord now, with a little emphasis laid on the "my." "They have made father a Member of Parliament, but he does not earn anything. What I can earn up to the last fatal day he shall have, if you will let me give ...

— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope

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