What is "lessened"

Usage examples of "lessened".

I know that the demands of the war had lessened, and I know what young people in love do.

All they could chatter about in the Fellowship Way was that this Bishop treated them better than the last, and that the monies demanded by the Church had lessened, and the sermons sounded less judgmental.

Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.

Miss Hamilton, three years older than herself, but still from the want of near relations and a settled home, remaining another year at school, had been useful and good to her in a way which had considerably lessened her misery, and could never be remembered with indifference.

Gradually the trembling lessened and her breathing became more regular.

Her sobbing lessened, the vast weight off her now that she had told him the truth and given him the news before he heard it from others-- and that he did not seem to care.

When her panting had lessened and her ears could hear, the music was still playing but far away.

As steam power came off the huge driving shaft and the engine began to slow, the noise lessened and the stokers leaned gratefully on their shovels, their chests gulping air heavy with coal dust and wrung out the towels they wore about their necks.

In time her voice trailed away, the sobbing lessened, and she sank into fitful sleep.

He saw land a mile or so away, and noticed that the rain had lessened and so had the sea.

Each time as the pain lessened and she drifted into sleep and crossed the boundary of the other world her last conscious thought was that she was dying, very easily and with a sense of happy anticipation.

It was only a small stream, such as is born in the High Sierra of melting snows, but its dizzy fall, its mad leaping, the echoes that were never still, caused a murmurous sound that swelled and lessened fitfully but was never still.

The fact that the man who had first proposed the races which were to be run off in the Spring, was a fugitive, accused of a grave crime, had aroused much sensational talk and newspaper babble, but it had increased rather than lessened interest and new entries were being daily arranged.

Secondly, because this would have lessened the merit of faith, which He came to offer men as the way to righteousness, according to Rom.

The Jews also of the common order sinned most grievously as to the kind of their sin: yet in one respect their crime was lessened by reason of their ignorance.