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Emphasizing   /ˈɛmfəsˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Emphasizing

noun
1.
The act of giving special importance or significance to something.  Synonyms: accenting, accentuation.



Emphasize

verb
(past & past part. emphasized; pres. part. emphasizing)
1.
To stress, single out as important.  Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress.
2.
Give extra weight to (a communication).  Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore.



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"Emphasizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary is it," replied the burgomaster, emphasizing his words. "Times alter, manners alter! The world advances, and we do not wish to remain behind. We desire our streets to be lighted within a month, or you must pay a large indemnity for each day of delay; and what would happen if, amid the darkness, ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne

... found in Ernst Schur's Heinrich von Kleist in seinen Briefen, p. 295. Dr. J. Sadger has written a pathographic and psychological study of Kleist, emphasizing the homosexual strain, in the Grenzfragen des Nerven- ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance. But it is impossible to carry on this discipline in the subjective sphere without zealously emphasizing the brighter and minimizing the darker aspects of the objective sphere of things at the same time. And thus our resolution not to indulge in misery, beginning at a comparatively small point within ourselves, may not stop until it has brought the entire frame of reality under a ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... list that follows to distinguish between primary and secondary causes, nor to arrange them in any order of importance. An effort to get from case workers lists so arranged resulted only in confusion, each person emphasizing a different set of factors. The groupings here given, therefore, are no more than a placing of the more obviously related factors together and a leading from past ...
— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... bill fared well as a whole. Like the original bill it came back from the committee on commerce amended, though slightly, and with a minority report against it: the minority again emphasizing their "unqualified opposition to this renewed effort to donate to certain favored interests moneys collected by the Government for public purposes under its power of taxation."[IA] It was closely fought by the opposition in debate, opened with Senator Gallinger's argument in its behalf on January ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon


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