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Definition of Exaggerations
1. exaggeration [n] - See also: exaggeration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaggerations
Literary usage of Exaggerations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences: Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement by Thomas Mozley (1882)
"Exaggerations. IT is almost universal that the leaders of a movement are pursued
by a spirit of ... The exaggerations are chiefly in the material direction. ..."
2. Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the by Heinrich Schliemann (1875)
"Limited extent of Troy—Its walls traced—Poetic exaggerations of Homer — The one
great point of TROY'S reality established— It was as large as the primitive ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"No doubt many of the accounts of its vast population are oriental exaggerations.
But even according to Dr. Buchanan-Hamilton, who places the inhabited area ..."
4. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"... marks the supreme exaggerations of the pseudo-classic, Des Esseintes of the
romantic point of view. With this mention of Castel we may therefore ..."
5. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... these Tendencies may introduce Alloy that does not represent—Exaggerations in
Love-Scenes—In Descriptions of Natural Scenery, etc.—-. ..."
6. The Messiah Idea in Jewish History by Julius Hillel Greenstone (1906)
"... Maimonides—The Messianic Belief an Article of Faith—Maimonides takes Rabbinic
Exaggerations figuratively—The Greatest Blessing of the Future—His Belief ..."
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