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auxesis
[awg-zee-sis, awk-see-]
noun
growth, especially that resulting from an increase in cell size.
auxesis
/ ɔːɡˈziːsɪs, ɔːkˈsiː- /
noun
growth in animal or plant tissues resulting from an increase in cell size without cell division
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of auxesis1
Example Sentences
Figures of auxesis and repetition—often pulling together words or themes from earlier in the speech—commonly proliferate in the peroration, and many orators will crank it up a little in the direction of the grand style.
Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.
Auxesis, awk-sē′sis, n. gradual deepening in force of meaning: hyperbole.
And as to Horace, that Nil molitur inepte, in one Place, and——Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, in another, must be regarded as Hyperboles; the one as an Auxesis, the other as a Mei�sis.
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