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Definition of Greatening
1. greaten [v] - See also: greaten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greatening
Literary usage of Greatening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"... controllings but your Lordship's, I shall, my Lord, without the least greatening
or lessening the matter, do my duty in laying it shortly before you. ..."
2. The Kindergarten: Reports of the Committee of Nineteen on the Theory and by International Kindergarten Union Committee of Nineteen (1913)
"... if this suggestion is reinforced by primitive myths; if science has truly
interpreted the intimations of nature; and if, above all, an ever-greatening ..."
3. God, the Creator and Lord of All by Samuel Harris (1896)
"But the wonder of knowledge is greater than the wonder of ignorance. It is the
presence of mystery, ever greatening in the background of our ever ..."
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