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Definition of Lessens
1. lessen [v] - See also: lessen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lessens
Literary usage of Lessens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"The baking of the soil proportionally excludes air, and as it does, it proportionally
lessens the activity of bacterial life, thus reducing the beneficent ..."
2. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"... may make Even with the year ; but age, if it will hit, ' Shoots a bow short,
and lessens still his stake, / As the day lessens, and his life with it. ..."
3. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson, United States Circuit Court (4th circuit), Aaron Burr (1808)
"... L the quantum of the force employed neither lessens nor increases the crime;
whether by one hundred or one thousand persons, is wholly immaterial. ..."
4. History of the Middle and Working Classes: With a Popular Exposition of the by John Wade (1834)
"... the Contrivance of Tools and Machinery- lessens the Cost of Production—Applicable
chiefly to Mechanical Employments—Limited by Extent of the Market. ..."
5. 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 (1856)
"It lessens the labor of tuning the piano, and secures a more complete accordance
in the hands of most tuners. It must take the place of the old piano in use ..."
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