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emphatically

emphatically \em*phat"ic*al*ly\, adv.

  1. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; pre["e]minently; as, he emphatically denied the allegations.

    He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Not really, but apparently. [Obs.]
    --Sir T. Browne.

Wiktionary
emphatically

adv. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

WordNet
emphatically

adv. without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably, definitely, in spades, by all odds]

Usage examples of "emphatically".

Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.

I knew there was an entire magazine staff of fashionistas who would emphatically disagree with me, but I thought I looked pretty damn good for only my second interview.

Eugenie Fonda clamped her knees so emphatically that he yipped and jerked away, drawing an amused glance from a young cowboy across the aisle.

The Church emphatically denies the existence of ley lines or any such fertility-goddess, earth-magic mumbo jumbo.

This was acknowledged also by the Panchen Lama when he emphatically declared that he would exercise his office only under the superior authority of the Dalai Lama, whose wisdom and ascetic life plainly predestined him for that high function.

When Vitale nodded emphatically, his compadres called goodbyes and shuffled off with their canes for hills unknown.

What cruelties of past experimentation has this author emphatically condemned?

Since Miss Mannering had sent him to the rightabout, and emphatically, Johann could only conclude that her character was unblemished, and her tastes very queer.

Low Countries who were emphatically of the soil, believing in themselves and their own country and picturing scenes from commonplace life in a manner quite their own.

I say it and I say it emphatically, without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice, accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered with.

Finally, the injustice of the dogma of everlasting punishment is most emphatically shown by the fact that there is no sort of correspondence or possible proportion between the offence and the penalty, between the moment of sinning life and the eternity of suffering death.

Speaker, I must state emphatically that what the honourable member for East Warra Warra alleges against me is a base fabrication.

Whatever the size of the armies of Washington and Rochambeau, Adams wrote emphatically, victory in America and an end to the war there would never come so long as the British were masters of the sea.

For Adams, who had argued emphatically at Paris for full repayment of American debt and had never deviated from that view, American reluctance, or inability, to make good on its obligations was a disgrace and politically a great mistake.

Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.