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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

... boys have attained a certain advancement among other things they have sham battles, with 200 or 150 boys on a side. A district is given to one side to be captured by the other. Each side has a captain, and at this stage of their development emphasis is placed upon the display of bravery. And sometimes the contests assume aspects of reality. When one side repulses another six times it is said ...

— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various

... speech to make about his sister?' Jerry said, with a slight emphasis upon the last word, as she walked away, leaving Nina to wonder if she ...

— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... deliberately, until the pause added emphasis; with equal deliberation he drove the ...

— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... seem to pinch his nose. He pokes out his chin to keep the spectacles on, and yet looks over the top of his spectacles, squinching up his eyes so that you cannot see your way into his mind. Then he speaks through his nose, and with a lisp, strangely contrasting with the vehemence of his emphasis. He does not give me any confidence in the sincerity of his patriotism, nor any high idea of his talents, though he seems to have a mighty high idea of them himself. He has been well called Le hero des brochures. We sat beside one another, and I think felt a mutual ...

— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... couch. The French officer stood up, too. Tomassov hastened to follow their example. He was pained by his state of utter mental darkness. While he was raising the lady's white hand to his lips he heard the French officer say with marked emphasis: ...

— Tales Of Hearsay • Joseph Conrad

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