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

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

Italic :: Italic (n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters..

Nonemphatical :: Nonemphatical (a.) Having no emphasis; unemphatic.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Stress :: Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35..

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

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..

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..

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

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