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Definition of Hastened
1. hasten [v] - See also: hasten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastened
Literary usage of Hastened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1888)
"I hastened to descend to her. Kneeling before her, with my face in the dust, I
confessed with tears how little was my worth to breathe the air of this ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"It was rumoured that overdoses from an ' antimonial cup ' from Massachusetts
hastened his end (Collections of Ufas*. Hist. So?. 4th ser. vol. vi. p. 125). ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Every cause prepared, and every circumstance hastened a revolution which distracted
the Roman empire with along series of intestine calamities The siege of ..."
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