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Definition of Deafens
1. deafen [v] - See also: deafen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deafens
Literary usage of Deafens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Virgil by Virgil, John Dryden, John Carey, Knightly Chetwood (1803)
"For justice, deafens and disturbs the crowd;_ _ Urges his cause may in the court
be heard ... deafens ..."
2. Two Essays Upon Matthew Arnold with Some of His Letters to the Author by Arthur Howard Galton (1897)
"The essay upon Collins, by being written in superlatives and vague similes,
deafens and perplexes the reader; ..."
3. Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto, John Hoole (1785)
"... conceal'd he lies, deafens the hills, the vales, the feas and fides ! 140 There
Ver. 140. deafens the hills, the vales, — ] In this hyperbole ..."
4. Parochial Sermons by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1873)
"Only the dinf of the world, or the tumult of our own hearts, deafens our inward
ear to it. Stillness is as f Christian Year:— " Sin is with man at morning ..."
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