Definition of Straitening

1. Verb. (present participle of straiten) ¹

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Definition of Straitening

1. straiten [v] - See also: straiten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitening

strainmeter
strainmeters
strainometer
strainometers
strains
straint
straintronics
straints
strait
strait-laced
strait and narrow
straited
straiten
straitened
straitened times
straitening
straitens
straiter
straitest
straiting
straitjacket
straitjacketed
straitjacketing
straitjackets
straitlaced
straitlacedly
straitlacedness
straitly
straitness
straitnesses

Literary usage of Straitening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"For Destiny has her nets round him ; they are straitening, straitening; too soon he will be ginned! Driven out from Trent, what shall he make of the new ..."

2. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"... straitening their Streets. The Middlesex Canal begins already to prove its value to Boston & Stores are opened at each end of it. ..."

3. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"... obstinately firm in spite of every attempt and every remonstrance— that the. straitening should still continue—not the straitening of God toward us. for ..."

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