hyperbole

Deliberate overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.rhetoricuncountable

• Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low, Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew.
• The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.

An instance or example of such overstatement.countable

• […]and when he ſpeakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnſquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, / Would ſeemes Hyperboles

A hyperbola.countableobsolete