Auxesis (figure of speech)

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Auxesis (Greek: αὔξησις, aúxēsis) is the Greek word for "growth" or "increase". In rhetoric, it refers to varying forms of increase:

In Ancient Greece, it was also sometimes known as auxanein ("growing").

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References

  1. Encarta World English Dictionary (1999)
  2. The Times English Dictionary (2000)
  3. OED 1st edition
  4. Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University Silva Rhetoricae
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