How To Use Auxesis In A Sentence

• Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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• The one is the discussion of an indefinite question, or general truth, which by the Greeks (as I have before observed) is called a _thesis_: and the other is employed in amplifying and exaggerating, which they call an _auxesis_. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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• Would you be happy for CiF and the moderators to assume it was true, and say so, until you managed to prove it wasn't? auxesis The Guardian World News
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