attune
verb (used with object)
to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust.
had attuned
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past perfectof attune.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And often, as the shadows fell, And twilight had attuned them well, She sang of many a noble deed, And marked with joy their eager heed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
Angeli's words and mine had attuned her to that disposition.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
She had seized on his whole being, appropriated his every thought, and had attuned to hers every chord of his complex nature.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
Nature had attuned my soul to the surrounding harmony—the gentlest pressure of her confiding hand oppressed me with joy and moved me to tears.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
And again his heart returned to its bitterness; the hand that so often had attuned it to gentleness, was cold—cold in death.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
