And both from a single cause: the incessant use of words in a figurative sense.

My former wife is a man-eater well enough, but only in the figurative sense.

The degree of mortality, in a figurative sense, is almost as high.

The same distinctions apply to the figurative sense of the words.

Various figurative senses of the word have been extended from its original sense.

Sometimes the word "leak" is used in a figurative sense.

Which was, in a figurative sense, exactly what was about to happen.

He is very much at home here, both in a literal and figurative sense.

This means in a figurative sense that a company should be made up to a place, where one would like to work!

I think you might find that he thought this text was intended in a figurative sense.