emphasise
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- (transitive) If you emphasise something, you give it particular attention or importance.
- Emphasise honesty in your sermon.
- Your sermon emphasises honesty.
- He emphasised honesty in his sermon.
- Honesty was emphasised in his sermon.
- Today's sermon is emphasising honesty.