单词 | heightened |
释义 | heightenedadj. a. Raised, elevated, exalted; elated; increased, augmented; intensified. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree > increased in intensity or degree strengthened1578 intended1590 exasperate1601 intenseda1658 aggrandized1689 heightened1701 intensated1831 intensified1862 stepped1933 1701 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London (ed. 3) iv. 84 Numerous and heightened Enormities. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 27 Without mentioning any particular ground for his so heightened Displeasure. a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 80 A humbled spirit is better than a heightened condition. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma i. 38 Holiness is but a heightened righteousness. b. Heraldry. (See quot. 1873.) ΚΠ 1873 C. Boutell & S. T. Aveling Heraldry 159 Heightened, having a decorative accessory or another charge placed above or higher in the field. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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