epic simile
noun
: an extended simile that is used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject
Word History
First Known Use
1931, in the meaning defined above
- procurator-general
- procurator-generals
- procuratorate
- procuratorial
- procurators
- procurators-general
- procuratorship
- procuratorships
- procuratory
- procuratrix
- procure
- procured
- procurement
- procurement clerk
- procurements
- procurer
- procurers
- procures
- procuress
- procuresses
- procureur
- procureurs
- procuring
- procurrent
- procurved