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Definition of Lightened
1. lighten [v] - See also: lighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightened
Literary usage of Lightened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spanish Verb: With an Introduction on Spanish Pronunciation by Peter Edward Traub, Edward Edgar Wood (1900)
"... it should lighten or lightened used to lighten Past Definite Imperfect {Second
... Cond. hubiera or hubiese re- that it should have or had lightened ..."
2. The Spanish Verb: With an Introduction on Spanish Pronunciation by Peter Edward Traub, Edward Edgar Wood (1900)
"... it should lighten or lightened IMPERATIVE MOOD, AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE ...
lo have lightened. COMPOUND PRESENT PARTICIPLE : habiendo ..."
3. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"The time of the year lightened the evil to him. May was better for everything
than February. Mrs Bates was engaged to spend the evening at Hartfield; ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"Lightened LAB OK. MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT. "Tis hard life's duties to perform,
When we are tired and wish to dream, But love will lighten labor so, ..."
5. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"... to dispel. mercenaries, but was beaten and made prisoner in this unwise
enterprise, the scandal of which nothing but good fortune could have lightened. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The long period of Turkish oppression is lightened by the daring feat of Prince
Eugene, who in the autumn of 1697 after the battle of Zenta, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... world," (see Wordsworth,) was lightened ; we understood everything in a trice ;
difficulties were seen taking wing, and disappearing beyond the horizon ..."