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Exaggeration

EXAGGERA'TION, noun A heaping together; heap; accumulation.

1. In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.

2. In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.

 

 

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