Enlargement: Definition and part of speech

Enlargement

  1. n. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.
  2. n. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.
  3. n. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.
  4. n. A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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