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noun special importance or significance
noun intensity or forcefulness of expression
noun special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
originFrom Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to present; to indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
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