Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rhetorical amplification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Rhetorical amplification.
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- noun obsolete
rhetorical amplification
Etymologies
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Compare French rhétorication.
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Examples
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The opposition he makes, our Saviour here emphatically describes by the winds blowing, the rain descending, and the floods coming, which is not an insignificant rhetorication of the same thing by several expressions, (like some pulpit bombast, made only to measure an hour glass,) but an exact description of those three methods by which this assault of the devil prevails and becomes victorious.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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