Sentence example with the word 'lightening'

lightening

abatement, blanching, deadening, discoloration, easement, illuminating, loosening, pacification, relief, tempering, unsaddling

Definition n. descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy

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The system of the catasto, which led to abuses, was abolished, and a progressive income-tax (decima scalata) was introduced with the object of lightening the burdens of the poor, who were as a rule Medicean, at the expense of the rich; but as it was frequently increased the whole community came to be oppressed by it in the end.   [Please select]

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The surface of the river was lightening.   [Please select]

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Yet on the whole the sky was lightening.   [Please select]

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Sonny wagged his tail obediently, his load of misery lightening under the touch of his mistress's hand.   [Please select]

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He glanced up and saw that the heavens were lightening yet more.   [Please select]

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--Indras, the rain-sending, thundering, lightening, radiant sun, who makes the rain fall and the light return, called the bull of bulls.   [Please select]

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And Dale felt his spirits lightening and a fierce gaiety filling his breast.   [Please select]

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