Meanings
present singular third person reemphasizes · participle present reemphasizing · participle past reemphasized · past reemphasized · alternative reemphasise · alternative re-emphasise · alternative re-emphasize · alternative reëmphasize
- To emphasize again; to reiterate.
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.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 720
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishemphasize
- Englishreemphasize
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reemphasize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reemphasize
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