reemphasize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From re- + emphasize.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈɛmfəsʌɪz/

Verb

reemphasize (third-person singular simple present reemphasizes, present participle reemphasizing, simple past and past participle reemphasized)

  1. To emphasize again; to reiterate.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 720:
      Although the New England settlers made their commonwealth much less like Old England than Virginia was intended to be, it is important to re-emphasize that the vast majority were not separatists but Puritans.
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