A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.
Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
Auxesis, augmentation, increase.
The condition of being auxetic
From Ancient Greek αὔξησις (aúxēsis, “growth”), from αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to grow”).
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