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    "figure_name": "Meiosis",
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    "simple_definition": "Meiosis understates something, often to express humility, contempt, restraint, or sharpened irony.",
    "technical_definition": "Meiosis is a figure of understatement in which something is deliberately described in lesser terms than the reality warrants, thereby intensifying the intended meaning by restraint or contrast.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 18:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I who am but dust and ashes",
      "explanation": "Abraham understates himself in humble contrast to the LORD before interceding.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Sam. 24:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!",
      "explanation": "David minimizes himself to expose Saul's disproportionate pursuit.",
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      "reference": "2 Sam. 9:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?",
      "explanation": "Mephibosheth uses self-lowering language before David's kindness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I am the least of the apostles",
      "explanation": "Paul underlines grace by describing himself in the lowest apostolic terms.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Eph. 3:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the very least of all the saints",
      "explanation": "Paul intensifies humility by lowering himself beneath all believers.",
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      "reference": "Luke 17:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "We are unworthy servants",
      "explanation": "Jesus teaches servants not to exaggerate their merit before God.",
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      "reference": "Ruth 2:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Why have I found favor... since I am a foreigner?",
      "explanation": "Ruth humbly understates her claim and magnifies Boaz's kindness.",
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      "reference": "Amos 7:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son",
      "explanation": "Amos minimizes institutional status to stress divine commission.",
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      "reference": "Matt. 15:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "even the dogs eat the crumbs",
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      "reference": "Job 25:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "man, who is a maggot",
      "explanation": "The speaker uses extreme lowliness language to stress creaturely smallness.",
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