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EMPHATICALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without question and beyond doubt
Example:
by all odds they should win
Synonyms:
by all odds; decidedly; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably
Classified under:
Pertainym:
emphatic (forceful and definite in expression or action)
Context examples:
Traddles, sitting on the edge of his chair, with his eyes wide open, and his hair more emphatically erect than ever, stared by turns at the ground and at Mr. Micawber, without so much as attempting to put in a word.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And and ing, with the d and g pronounced emphatically, he went over thousands of times; and to his surprise he noticed that he was beginning to speak cleaner and more correct English than the officers themselves and the gentleman-adventurers in the cabin who had financed the expedition.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He's as like her, Dick, said my aunt, emphatically, he's as like her, as she was that afternoon before she began to fret—bless my heart, he's as like her, as he can look at me out of his two eyes!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
