Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emphatically"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emphatically \Em*phat"ic*al*ly\, adv.
1. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree;
pre["e]minently.
He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
--Macaulay.
2. Not really, but apparently. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emphatically
adv : without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too
expensive"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: {decidedly},
{unquestionably}, {definitely}, {by all odds}]
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