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Emphatically

//ɪmˈfætɪkli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Most definitely; truly. modal

    "He was indeed emphatically a popular writer."

  3. 3
    Not really, but apparently. obsolete

    "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"

Adverb
  1. 1
    without question and beyond doubt wordnet

Etymology

From emphatic + -ally.

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