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Definition of Saddened
1. sadden [v] - See also: sadden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saddened
Literary usage of Saddened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"pallor and her eyes, humbled and saddened by the dark shame of womanhood.
While his soul had passed from ecstasy to languor where had she been? ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"His old age was happy and honoured, saddened only by the deaths of his friends,
and especially by the death of his wife, which took place in 1842. ..."