Literary notes about augmented (AI summary)
The term “augmented” is used with remarkable versatility in literature to suggest an increase or intensification in both tangible and intangible realms. In economic texts, for instance, it denotes the growth of capital or resources, as when merchant profits contribute to national wealth [1, 2] or when production numbers are raised [3]. In narratives, its application shifts to describing the swelling of emotions or personal attributes, such as a character feeling more enriched or weighed down by internal suffering [4, 5, 6]. Authors even employ it to indicate structural or creative expansion, whether by adding strophes to a poem [7] or by revising texts with new chapters [8, 9]. In each case, “augmented” serves as a literary device that not only quantifies an increase but also deepens the thematic texture of a work, enhancing both the physical and metaphorical dimensions of the subject at hand [10, 11, 12].
- Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal?
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The king was pleased to hear that offer; and because it augmented his revenues, he said he would confirm the sale of the taxes to him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus - It was augmented further by sheep, goats, asses, and cattle.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - She felt rich and augmented by it, as if she were the positive attraction and he the flow towards her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - What augmented Father Gillenormand’s secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and did not allow its existence to be divined.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Thorarin then composed a stave as a refrain, which he inserted in the poem, and also augmented it with several other strophes or verses.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson - The Sixth Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton - It is by mistake that this edition was announced as augmented by many new chapters.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - “Yet I fear that the same feelings now exist that made you so miserable a year ago, even perhaps augmented by time.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - ‘Stand back,’ said Mr. Grummer, whose dignity, like the dignity of a great many other men, had been wondrously augmented by a little popularity.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
