Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-AG-GER-A'TION
EX-AG'GER-A-TINGEX-AG'GER-A-TO-RY
EX-AG-GER-A'TION, n.
- A heaping together; heap; accumulation. [Little used.] Hale.
- In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.
- In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.
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