Mei-ō'sis, n.
n. [Gr. μείωσις, from μειοῦν, to make smaller, to lessen, from μείων. See supra.] (Rhet.) Diminution; a rhetorical figure, a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
n. [Gr. μείωσις, from μειοῦν, to make smaller, to lessen, from μείων. See supra.] (Rhet.) Diminution; a rhetorical figure, a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.