Noah Webster
Auxesis
AUXE'SIS, noun [Gr. increase.]
In rhetoric, a figure by which any thing is magnified too much; an increasing, or exornation, when, for amplification, a more grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word.
AUXE'SIS, noun [Gr. increase.]
In rhetoric, a figure by which any thing is magnified too much; an increasing, or exornation, when, for amplification, a more grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word.