unlessened
- a word derived from lessen.
Example Sentences
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Of all the longings and affections that one by one have perished from my heart, the solitary passion for nature has alone remained, unlessened and undisturbed.
From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine
It was there now, unchanged, unlessened; Winthrop read it; that as she had lived, so she had died, in sure expectation of 'the rest that remaineth.'
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan
This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
We cannot rest at ends attained and find unlessened rapture in them.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
"Death has no power the immortal soul to slay, That, when its present body turns to clay, Seeks a fresh home, and with unlessened might Inspires another frame with life and light."
From Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Abhedananda, Swami
