Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AUX-E'SIS
AU-TUM'NALAUX-IL'IAR, or AUX-IL'IA-RY
AUX-E'SIS, n. [Gr. αυξησις, 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. – Smith. Encyc.
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