litten
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The women have become only black shapes upon the square litten patch which is the doorway surrounded by the blackness of the barn.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
When Launfal heard these words he rejoiced greatly, for his heart was litten by another's torch.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
Not in a litten house: Not ere the hour when night turns on itself And shakes the silence: not while ye wake together.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
Everywhere the green fire of Spring would be litten anew.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
And therewith he swung merrily into the litten hall.
From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
