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emphatic (adj.)
1708, from Latinized form of Greek
emphatikos
, variant of
emphantikos
, from stem of
emphainein
(see
emphasis
).
Emphatical
is earlier (1550s in rhetorical sense, 1570s as "strongly expressive"). Related:
Emphatically
(1580s).
