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▪ I. deepening, vbl. n.|ˈdiːp(ə)nɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb deepen, q.v.
1785J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navig. 45 The cleansing and deepening would be exactly the same..expence. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 360 The draining off of the water, by the deepening of the outlet. 1884Athenæum 1 Nov. 558/1 The gradual deepening of the mystery.
attrib.1767Specif. Downes' Patent No. 872 A certain instrument or tool called a deepening tool.
†2. Painting. The process of intensifying colour or shadow; a shaded part of a picture. Obs.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. 114 White Lead for the heightning, and Smalt for your deepning, or darkest shadow. 1638Junius Painting of Anc. 275 To adde unto their workes some shadowes and deepnings. 1669A. Browne Ars Pict. (1675) 84 The strong touches and deepnings.
3. A depression in a surface.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 314 The bridge of the nose is..not without a deepening in the interorbital portion. 1880J. Caird Philos. Relig. vii. 192 Dints, marks, spatial deepenings and elevations.
▪ II. ˈdeepening, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That deepens; becoming deep or deeper: see deepen 2.
1762Falconer Shipwr. i. (R.), Ere yet the deepening incidents prevail. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, The deepening gloom. 1867M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd i. 5 Against the deepening crimson of the sky.
Hence ˈdeepeningly adv.
1878Grosart in H. More's Poems, Introd. 19/2 The same impression is inevitable in reading More..and deepeningly as you ponder his Poetry. |