LekhoriLekhoriDeliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low, Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew.
An instance or example of such overstatement.
[…]and when he ſpeakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnſquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, / Would ſeemes Hyperboles
A hyperbola.
From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”, ultimately from Pro...
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