phatically

Uttered unselfconsciously, it was voiced metrically, just to give lilt and play to a phrase, or phatically, not to express an idea but to establish sociability like the quack of a duck, song of a swan, or purr of a cat.

The Truth Will Out. Fathorse 2008

But he em - phatically asserted that the mythical mentality was transcended in the age of reason.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

About a month later Newton expressed himself even more em - phatically to the same correspondent:

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

This was equally difapproved of by the haughty Swedes, who immediately and em - phatically pronounced a general negative.

A Tour Through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark: In a series of letters, illustrated ... 1789