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Emphasis :: Emphasis (n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience..

Epizeuxis :: Epizeuxis (n.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -.

Impression :: Impression (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.

Emphatically :: Emphatically (adv.) With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently.

Emphatical :: Emphatical (a.) Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning..

Emphaticalness :: Emphaticalness (n.) The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.

Accent :: Accent (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

Emphasis :: Emphasis (n.) A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis..

Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

Myself :: Myself (pron.) I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself..

Devil :: Devil (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation..

Cool :: Cool (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount..

Indeed :: Indeed (adv.) In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies..

Nation :: Nation (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure..

Palilogy :: Palilogy (n.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, The living, the living, he shall praise thee..

Intensive :: Intensive (a.) Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition..

Ploce :: Ploce (n.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, His wife's a wife indeed..

Trope :: Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech..

Scansion :: Scansion (n.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise..

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