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Webster 1913 Edition
Exaggeration
Ex-agˊger-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
exaggeratio
: cf. F. exagération
.] 1.
The act of heaping or piling up.
[Obs.]
“Exaggeration of sand.” Sir M. Hale.
2.
The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
No need of an
exaggeration
of what they saw. I. Taylor.
3.
(Paint.)
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
– Ex-ag′ger-a-tive-ly
, adv.
Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exaggeration
EXAGGERA'TION
,Noun.
1.
In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.2.
In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.