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Definition of Mildens
1. milden [v] - See also: milden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mildens
Literary usage of Mildens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou by Ernest Thompson Seton (1911)
"The climate mildens and the south winds cease not, so that wind-borne grasses
soon make green meadows of the broad lake-bottom flats. ..."
2. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"... who man's crude needs mildens with heavenly sanctions, by seer's voice Or
prophet's ; justice names his assessor; Gives nations the reward of well-doing ..."
3. Quo Vaditis?: A Call to the Old Moralities by Bouck White (1903)
"But as the outward rule mildens, government by the VOICE within must grow imperious;
else lean-fingered anarchy and the letting of blood. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"To become mild ; grow less severe, stringent, or intense; soften: as, the weather
gradually mildens. Imp. Diet. II. trans. 1. To make merciful.—2. ..."
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