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Definition of Hyperbolist
1. n. One who uses hyperboles.
Definition of Hyperbolist
1. Noun. One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyperbolist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperbolist
Literary usage of Hyperbolist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"nature, without making Christ himself the most extravagant hyperbolist that ever
misused language? But it is impossible to make that man blush, ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"Not so with your slow, prosing hyperbolist, who with a steady eye "doles out his
cold extravagance and dull excess. You can come to no squares with him, ..."
3. Notes on English Divines by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"... of mustard seed of it, we might control all material nature, without making
Christ himself the most extravagant hyperbolist that ever misused language ? ..."
4. In God's Out-of-doors by William Alfred Quayle (1902)
"valorous fishermen, am persuaded that it is next door to an impossibility to be
a chronic fisherman and not become a chronic hyperbolist (I use this term ..."
5. Lost Mosaics and Frescoes of Rome of the Mediaeval Period: A Publication of by Charles Rufus Morey (1915)
"... even if the "utter destruction" of the medi;cval hyperbolist be taken with a
grain of salt, for there is record of restorations on the part of the popes ..."
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