amplificationn.[L. amplificatio.]1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.()2. (Rhet.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject.()Exaggeration is a species of amplification. (Brande & C.)I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. (Sir J. Davies.)3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.()