DIMENSIONS: FORM / Guide
C O N S I D E R A T I O N S
indication
prominence
stress
importance
significance
intensity
force
given
attached
laid on or upon
form or outline in anything . . . . expression or action
R E F E R E N C E S
Emphasis [< L < GK: indication] 1. stress laid upon, or importance or significance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the crisis 2. something that is given stress or importance: Morality was the emphasis of his speech 3. Rhet. stress laid on particular words by means of position, repetition, voice, etc. 4. intensity or force of expression, action etc.: Determination lent emphasis to his proposals 5. prominence, as of form or outline: The background detracts from the emphasis of the figure
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
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