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Definition of Mildening
1. milden [v] - See also: milden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mildening
Literary usage of Mildening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"And with reference to the last of these factors, — the repression of crime, — we
shall presently have occasion to show that the mildening of punishment is ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"But " years that bring the philosophic mind," and that chasten humanity with
their mildening influence, conduct the belated pilgrim back to the garden, ..."
3. The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal by Elisha Kent Kane (1854)
"The excessive thickness of the tables, the wave and tidal actions, the mildening
temperature, and the probable continuance of winds, all point to this. ..."
4. Essays on Various Subjects by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1853)
"It is not Saul alone, nor only his evil spirit, that hath felt the mildening and
calming influence of David's harp; many hearts, troubled like that of St. ..."
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