Am`pli*fi*ca"tion (&?;), n. [L.
amplificatio.]
1. The
act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
2.
(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.
Brande & C.
I
shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied.
Sir J. Davies.
3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.
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