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The definition of literal use is understood with a qualification concerning the respect of usage.
On this reply, a word is literal in the aspect in which its conventional meaning is actually intended. A distinct rhetorical respect may be claimed, but that does not automatically erase the word's ordinary assigned signification.
The point at issue is the boundary between use according to conventional assignment and use under a rhetorical claim. Without that boundary, anything described figuratively might be too hastily classified as figurative at the level of its noun.