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Definition of Emphatic

Emphatic

  1. Alt. of Emphatical

Emphatic Quotations

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.
Paul Ryan

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
William Feather

When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.
Gary Bauer

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
John Hickenlooper

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
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Emphatic Translations

emphatic in Dutch is nadrukkelijk
emphatic in Italian is esplicito
emphatic in Norwegian is ettertrykkelig
emphatic in Swedish is eftertrycklig, starkt betonad

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