“hyperbolist”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

hyperbolist

释义

hyperbolist|haɪˈpɜːbəlɪst|
[f. hyperbole + -ist.]
1. One given to the use of hyperbole; one who uses exaggerated language or statements.
1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 253, I..cease to think the Psalmist an hyperbolist, for comparing the transcendent sweetness of God's word to that inferiour one of honey.a1734North Exam. iii. viii. §79 Our ordinary Anecdotarians..do not declaredly transcribe them [libels] into their Text, as our Hyperbolist hath done here.1872Daily News 2 Sept., Court hyperbolists and loyal dispatches..had swelled his achievements to the proportions of matchless feats.
2. [nonce-use, f. ]
1831I. Taylor in Edwards Freed. Will Introd. iii. 55 The friends of the first of the curves would think themselves justified in denouncing the hyperbolists as extravagant heretics.

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