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Emphasizing   /ˈɛmfəsˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Emphasize  v. t.  (past & past part. emphasized; pres. part. emphasizing)  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.



noun
emphasizing  n.  The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Synonyms: accenting.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Emphasizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... What a face! Thin, broad, yet finely proportioned, with short, flaxen locks framing it, delicate eyebrows marking the brow and emphasizing the beautiful eyes. A woman to be feared, an evil spirit ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... disappointment as she looked about her. The low-ceiled whitewashed apartment into which they had descended from the winding iron stair was sepulchrally bare and empty in the flicker of its noisy gas jets, the rusty gas stoves at its farther end emphasizing its general ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

... "the brave monsieur Bijou, how he played with la folle Fifine. Was he not too sure perhaps? Fifine can love, but oh! more delicious, Fifine can hate! yes hate!! hate!!!" she repeated with a malicious pleasure, emphasizing the word, "and she can ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

... general ethical tendency has thus been of the greatest importance in emphasizing the consciousness of duty, and has brought both hedonism and rationalism to a recognition of its fundamental importance. Ethics must deal not only with the moral ideal, but also with the ground of its appeal to the individual, and his obligation ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

... the best interests of the nation. With the desire to minimize this danger, our association, extending as it does into every precinct of our great cities and into the various counties of the States, offers to conduct classes in school centers wherein national allegiance shall be taught, emphasizing tolerance, to the end that the Stars and Stripes shall wave over a loyal ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper


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