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Webster 1828 Edition
Heightening
HEIGHTENING
,ppr.
HEIGHTENING
,Noun.
1.
Aggravation; augmentation.Definition 2024
heightening
heightening
English
Verb
heightening
- present participle of heighten
Noun
heightening (plural heightenings)
- The act by which something is heightened or increased.
- 2003, Gary Null, Germs, Biological Warfare, Vaccinations: What You Need to Know
- For them, there was "an increase in total lymphocyte production, and a higher IG antibody response," among other heightenings.
- 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer (page 4)
- There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
- 2003, Gary Null, Germs, Biological Warfare, Vaccinations: What You Need to Know