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Definition of Heightening
1. Adjective. Reaching a higher intensity. "Their heightening fears"
Definition of Heightening
1. Verb. (present participle of heighten) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heightening
1. heighten [v] - See also: heighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heightening
Literary usage of Heightening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"An immoderate heightening of the speed of the efflux of the associations appears.
3. ... Pathological heightening of the Rapidity of Associations. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"... flying chariots, and fiery dragons, is an ample compensation for the want of
truth and nature ; and instead of heightening the passion of his poetry in ..."
3. Ultimate Demcracy and Its Making by Newell LeRoy Sims (1917)
"The heightening of Economic Inequality A further characteristic incidental to
the industrial age and giving impetus to the democratic movement is the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the sober and homely English imagination by such a heightening of horror by
horror, we may easily understand how people came to listen to Burke's voice ..."
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