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Definition of Softens
1. soften [v] - See also: soften
Lexicographical Neighbors of Softens
Literary usage of Softens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The novelist, however, softens the historian's verdict by bestowing in the last
scene a semblance of manhood and courage upon the fallen Emperor. ..."
2. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1900)
"The heart hardens and the brain softens. The energies of man are wasted in a vain
effort to secure the protection of the supernatural. ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The next operation is to place the pipe in the rest, and apply the thumb so as
to close the opening at the blowing end, the heat of the furnace soon softens ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"A Bohemian green glass tube softens at 769°, and becomes liquid at 1052° ; pure
limestone loses its carbonic acid by heating for several hours at ..."
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