Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which heightens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, heightens.
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- noun That which
heightens .
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Examples
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It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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She had been fifty-four years the delight of my father's heart, the sweetener of all his toils, the comforter of all his sorrows, the sharer and heightener of all his joys.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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That wine was drunk, not merely for its taste, but as a heightener of sensation, is evident; but the "three hundred cups" so often mentioned bear no such significance as might at first appear when the size of the cups is taken into account.
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Such a record may yield invaluable service as a heightener and interpreter of individual experience; to the last we find Martineau attaching a profound and quite special significance to the revelation in
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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Still further, we have here a symbol of Christ's glory as the ennobler and heightener of all earthly joys.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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They assur'd me that I was so perfectly to their taste as to have but one fault against me, which I might easily be cur'd of, and that was my modesty: this, they observ'd, might pass for a beauty the more with those who wanted it for a heightener; but their maxim was, that it was an impertinent mixture, and dash'd the cup so as to spoil the sincere draught of pleasure; they consider'd it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave it no quarter wherever they met with it.
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They assured me that I was so perfectly to their taste as to have but one fault against me, which I might easily be cured of, and that was my modesty: this, they observed, might pass for a beauty the more with those who wanted it for a heightener; but their maxim was, that it was an impertinent mixture, and dashed the cup so as to spoil the sincere draught of pleasure; they considered it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave it no quarter wherever they met with it.
fbharjo commented on the word heightener
hi tenor
June 22, 2010