Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of hyperbole.
- noun An instance of hyperbole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a curve the equation of which is derived from that of another curve by writing xy for y.
- noun The use of hyperbole; the character of being hyperbolical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The use of hyperbole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The use of
hyperbole - noun countable An instance of hyperbole
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Examples
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Shelby Steele, in a triumphant act of hyperbolism, claimed that "Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy."
Eric Alterman: Think Again: Sotomayor and SCOTUS: Captured on a Carousel of Time
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The loss of Arlen Specter has spurred a bit of frantic hyperbolism from within the GOP ranks.
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I denied this with native hyperbolism, saying that I was content to remain in _statu quo_ until the doom cracked, and that the conservatory was for me the equivalent of Paradise.
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Their oriental mellifluousness, hyperbolism, and obsequious politeness of speech have, as well as the Asiatic appearance of their features and dress, been noticed by all travellers in Poland.
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Francis Beaumont, who was a prominent member of that jovial senate, and to whom Shirley applies the fine hyperbolism that “he talked a comedy,” was born in 1586, and died in 1615.
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Beaumont, who was a prominent member of that jovial senate, and to whom Shirley applies the fine hyperbolism that "he talked a comedy," was born in 1586, and died in 1615.
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We must either, therefore, consider this as a mere hyperbolism of imagination, in the heat of debate, or, what I should rather believe, a defective statement by the reporter of Mr. Randolph's argument.
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We must either, therefore, consider this as a mere hyperbolism of imagination, in the heat of debate, or, what I should rather believe, a defective statement by the reporter of Mr. Randolph's argument.
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Always fond of the extravagant, and mistaking hyperbolism for grandeur, quaintness for wit, and the obscure for the sublime, the Spaniards readily fell in with the fashion of the day; and the satire of Cervantes proved powerless here.
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Spiritualism: he preaches the efficacy of repentance towards forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it, &c. &c. It is the innocence of his character, the purity and sublimity of his moral precepts, the eloquence of his inculcations, the beauty of the apologues in which he conveys them, that I so much admire; sometimes, indeed, needing indulgence to eastern hyperbolism.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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