2. Noun. A hypnotic suggestion designed to send the listener deeper into a state of trance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deepener
1. one that deepens [n -S] - See also: deepens
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deepener
Literary usage of Deepener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scrap Metals: Study of Iron and Steel Old Material, Its Preparation and Markets by George Henry Manlove, Charles Vickers (1918)
"When melting trolley wire a "deepener" should always be used on the crucible.
... The deepener protects the lengths of wire protruding out of the crucible ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... and music, carried to its utmost limits as the interpreter and deepener of
dramatic action. In one of the admirable letters to Mathilde Wesendonk, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... and an undreamed-of delight, ceases to be anything else than a deepener of
her sorrows. But we have already said that we cannot analyze Wallenstein. ..."
4. Studies in Seven Arts by Arthur Symons (1907)
"... and music carried to its utmost limits as the interpreter and deepener of
dramatic action. In one of the admirable letters to Mathilde Wesendonck, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... and getting a lozenge with a most mysterious name, which I had since found an
invariable throat deepener for three notes in the gamut. ..."
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