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noun

Amplification n.

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

(Rhet.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. "Exaggeration is a species of amplification." "I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied."

The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.

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"Amplification" Quotes from Famous Books

... your epitaph,(520) and would not have a Syllable altered. It tells exactly what it means to say, and that truth being an encomium, wants no addition or amplification. Nor do I love late language for modern facts, nor will European tongues perish since printing has been discovered. I should approve French least of all; it would be a kind of insult to the vanquished: and, besides, the example of a hero should be held out to his countrymen rather than to their ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... very comprehensive search may venture to say that he has heard all this before; but it was never till now recommended by such a blaze of embellishment, or such sweetness of melody. The vigorous contraction of some thoughts, the luxuriant amplification of others, the incidental illustrations, and sometimes the dignity, sometimes the softness of the verses, enchain philosophy, suspend criticism, and ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson

... development of a theory which would show that immaterial substance, with space and time as attributes, is as real and as absolute as the Cartesian geometrical and spatial account of matter which he felt was true but much in need of amplification. ...

— Democritus Platonissans • Henry More

... response is given, we should say: "Explain what you mean." If this brings an amplification of the response to "It means to do things for the poor," or the equivalent, the score is plus. "Charity means love" is also minus if the statement cannot be further explained and is merely rote memory of the passage in the ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... more beautiful girl than the sorceress (Nereid in Romaic), restores the youth to his true shape. Mr. Child regarded the tale as "one of the numerous wild growths" from Beauty and the Beast. It would be more correct to say that Beauty and the Beast is a late, courtly, French adaptation and amplification of the original popular "wild growth" which first appears (in literary form) as Cupid and Psyche, in Apuleius. Except for the metamorphosis, however, there is little analogy in this case. The friendly act of the Fairy Queen is without parallel in British Folklore, but Mr. Child points out ...

— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang

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