Definition of Largening

1. Noun. (present participle of largen) ¹

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Definition of Largening

1. largen [v] - See also: largen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Largening

largeheartedness
largeish
largeleaf
largeleaf holly
largely
largemouth
largemouths
largen
largened
largeness
largenesses
largening (current term)
largenose
largens
larger
larger-than-life
larger bindweed
larger than life
larges
largess
largesse
largesses
largest
larget
largets
larghetto

Literary usage of Largening

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

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1887)
"His recommendation of en- largening the present sphere of the Professor of Poetry's duties has been, indeed, already urged by Sir Francis Doyle, ..."

2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"... Roused by Sir Bevis or Sir Guy; And the one eye that meets my view, Lidless and strangely largening, too. Like that of conscience in the dark. ..."

3. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1918)
"It sees these two seek, ever silently, But certainly, that ruddy ball forever largening, smoldering to its rest, A dying cinder in a ..."

4. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1903)
"Brockie has succeeded, however, in preventing the possibility of over-feeding by the use of a slightly conical rod, of which the ever-largening diameter at ..."

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