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Definition of Magnifies
1. magnify [v] - See also: magnify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnifies
Literary usage of Magnifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Religion and Theology: The Church: in Idea and in History by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1910)
"The one magnifies the church, the other magnifies God. The one must have a church
that it may have religion; the other must have religion and truth that it ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... who smooths over difficulties as skilfully as Vaihinger, in his commentary,
emphasizes or even magnifies them. ..."
3. Propositions Concerning Protection and Free Trade by Willard Phillips (1850)
"Our foreign commerce small in comparison with domestic—Free trade magnifies the
foreign. The old cry against the encouragement of our domestic arts was that ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... then, oration made ; He magnifies the high clemency of Claudius, Permitting
draw, to winter-camps, the legions. Great, then, their shout, Live Caesar! ..."
5. Manual for the Physiological Laboratory by Vincent Dormer Harris, D'Arcy Power (1884)
"quires two objectives : one of long focal length, which magnifies about 60 to
100 times ; and another of very short focal length, which magnifies 300 or 400 ..."
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