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Definition of Lessoning
1. lesson [v] - See also: lesson
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lessoning
Literary usage of Lessoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"A favourite maxim of his in teaching was ' Lessoning, not lecturing.' In 1837
Payne married the daughter of the Rev. John Dyer, secretary of the Baptist ..."
2. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1910)
"Several of these had been bitten by dogs which had been proved to have rabies by
microscopic examination. Hence, this apparent lessoning of the number of ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"The patient herself was fully conscious of the lessoning of sensibility, and
hailed with delight the rapid recovery of feeling under the daily use of the ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharwood, Barron Field (1866)
"Which makes it a thing to be wished, that a method could be devised of either
lessoning.the expense of special verdicts, or else of entering the cause at ..."
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