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Definition of Lightens
1. lighten [v] - See also: lighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightens
Literary usage of Lightens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Shakespeare says of the happiness of lovers that it is and again,— Too like the
lightning, which docs cease to be Ere one can say, " It lightens," Ramea and ..."
2. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1890)
"He lightens and then increases its burdensomeness.—What it became after him.—The
law of 1818. I. The other group, long before 1789, comprises the cravings ..."
3. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"MACHINERY lightens LABOR. — The value of improved machinery rests upon different
grounds. Its first effect is to lessen the severity of human toil. ..."
4. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1869)
"... and more LOVE lightens LABOR. A good wife rose from her bed one morn, Than a
dozen mouths t» be fed. There's the meals to get lor the men in the field, ..."
5. The Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Text-book of Formal Logic by James McCosh (1870)
"Language lightens thought by being used as a symbol. When we think of objects
not present, we must always have some representation of them before the mind. ..."
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