Definition of amplification

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Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..

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Severe :: Severe (superl.) Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc..
Epideictic :: Epideictic (a.) Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade..
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..
Euhemerism :: Euhemerism (n.) The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts..
Increment :: Increment (n.) An amplification without strict climax,.
Rhetorication :: Rhetorication (n.) Rhetorical amplification.
Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications..
Length :: Length (a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length..
Ampliation :: Ampliation (n.) Enlargement; amplification.
Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..
Auxesis :: Auxesis (n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
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