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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
emphasis /ˈɛmfəsɪs/
▶noun (pl. emphases /-siːz/)
- 1 special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- 2 stress laid on a word or words in speaking.
– origin C16: via L. from Gk, orig. ‘appearance, show’, later denoting a figure of speech in which more is implied than is said, from emphainein ‘exhibit’.
'emphasis' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolutely
- abstract expressionism
- accent
- any
- anything
- awful
- bean counter
- bedad
- begad
- bejesus
- bleeding
- bloody
- blooming
- born
- capital
- commercialism
- cotton-picking
- dashed
- de-emphasize
- definitely
- deuce
- deuced
- dickens
- do
- doornail
- dreadful
- dunce
- earth
- earthly
- emphasize
- emphatic
- enclitic
- even
- ever
- fairly
- flipping
- Gawd
- God
- goddam
- gosh
- gum
- heck
- hell
- honestly
- however
- hyperbaton
- innit
- intense
- intensifier
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"Some" used for emphasis
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Repeated modals for emphasis - tag statement (not question).
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Such - emphasis
Term for when a word is placed in another word for emphasis
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"Some" used for emphasis
a heavy emphasis?
Additional emphasis given by perfect aspect
Another emphasis question
could for emphasis
Devotees come for the cocktails with an emphasis
do, did (emphasis usage)
Emphasis
Emphasis
Emphasis : I am Doing..Doing
Emphasis (formal written English)
Emphasis by italics?
emphasis degree in comparative
emphasis of an in-clause
Emphasis: what I have done is...
emphasize/emphasize on/emphasis on
grammatical reason or just emphasis?
Inversion for emphasis
it-that emphasis
more of an emphasis
Nationalist emphasis and distrust of Europe...
Plural of emphasis
Poetic inversion as a means of emphasis
Put a emphasis on ...
Repeated modals for emphasis - tag statement (not question).
Repeating letters in a word to give it emphasis?
Such - emphasis
Term for when a word is placed in another word for emphasis
The exam covers all chapters, with an emphasis on chapter 1.
more...
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