Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To relieve from sadness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To relieve from sadness; to cheer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To relieve from
sadness ; tocheer .
Etymologies
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un- + sadden
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Examples
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It needed all the sunshine of my September day to unsadden them, not from the rainy gloom in which I had left them then, but from the pensive associations of the years between.
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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He bowed assent and compliance; went to the glass; and began to untwist and unsadden his features; pulled his wig right, as if that, as well as his head and heart had been discomposed by his compunction, and once more became old Lucifer’s and mine.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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