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Decrease in size, extent, or range
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lessening
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Word definitions for lessening in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lessening \lessening\ adj. becoming less in dimension or degree; as, the lessening distance between us.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A growing lesser; reduction or decrease. vb. (present participle of lessen English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales" [syn: decrease , drop-off ] [ant: increase ]
Usage examples of lessening.
In any case if the man that has attained felicity meets some turn of fortune that he would not have chosen, there is not the slightest lessening of his happiness for that.
But the lessening of the fomes, which is the law of sin, is set down as an effect not of this sacrament, but rather of Baptism.
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages.
And even worse, there was no lessening of his sexual urge but a heightening, a greater obsession to pillow than before, one that had already driven him to the insanity of two nights ago with Angelique, not that he did not still desire her, he did, more than ever, and knew without a release he would try again and would not fail next time.
The sounds of the battle were lessening, those of the fires increasing, more and more inhabitants trying to douse them in lines passing water buckets.
He swung about quickly, caught sight of the four men who had seen Wanda and who were lessening the distance by quick strides.
Greg peered through the lessening lightning flashes at what he hoped was the outer fence of the installation.
How can a lessening of the life-quality produce an increase such as Sense-Perception?
Mingled Good and Bad, and the Rather Bad than Good, this last ending with the Utterly Bad we have been seeking, just as that in which Evil constitutes the lesser part tends, by that lessening, towards the Good.
It is not that these are poured out from the Supreme lessening it as if it were a thing of mass.
There must then be The Good--good unmixed--and the Mingled Good and Bad, and the Rather Bad than Good, this last ending with the Utterly Bad we have been seeking, just as that in which Evil constitutes the lesser part tends, by that lessening, towards the Good.