emphatically

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

   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. 2
   adv

   Most definitely; truly.

   He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

3. 3
   adv

   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

4. 4
   adv

   without question and beyond doubt

Etymology

From emphatic + -ally.