emphatically

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English emphatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English emphatically From emphatic + -ally.

1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

   “The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.”

   “Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.”

2. Most definitely; truly.

   “He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.”

3. Not really, but apparently.

   “I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity”