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Definition of Brighteners
1. brightener [n] - See also: brightener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brighteners
Literary usage of Brighteners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"... brighteners of tears, We come ! We come where the babe on its mother's breast
Lies in slumber de^p ; We flit by the maiden's couch of rest, ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1835)
"brighteners of space, enthroned in burning cars, Peopling with Life the skyey
solitude, Ye win my rapt soul to a kindred mood Of light and loftiness ! ..."
3. The Bibliophile (1908)
"Mr. Smith's admirable comment on this is: " Of Wordsworth, even when we have come
to love him as we could only love one of the chief brighteners, helpers, ..."
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