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countable and uncountable, plural enlargements
An act or instance of making something larger. examples
(figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation. quotations examples
Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337
An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged. examples
(obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty. quotations
Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length. quotations examples
Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.
1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence, page 40