Crossword-Solution: AUXESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Auxesis | n. | A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “AUXESIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Process of cell growth | 1 answer |
| increase in cell size without division | 1 answer |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with AUXESIS (1)
Yet he hastens to give a sign of grace by avowing his dissatisfaction with the usual Rhetorical view, and by distinguishing _auxesis_ and the Sublime itself, in a manner which brings the former still nearer to Burke’s “winding into a subject like a serpent,” and which might have been more edifying still if one of the usual gaps did not occur.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1989).