Talk:emphatically

Possible source for emphatically != actually

"And therefore what is delivered of their incurvity, must either be taken Emphatically, that is, not really but in appearance; which happeneth, when they leap above water, and suddenly shoot down again; which is a fallacy in vision, whereby straight bodies in a sudden motion protruded obliquely downward, appear unto the eye crooked; and this is the construction of Bellonius." See http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudo52.html

Should the sense be split?

It can mean literally "performed with emphasis", e.g. "he gestured emphatically at me", but it can also serve more of a discourse function, e.g. "this is emphatically the wrong approach to take". Equinox ◑ 17:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)