SOFTEN
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Sof"ten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Softened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Softening.] To make soft or more soft. Specifically: --
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(a) To render less hard; -- said of matter.
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Their arrow's point they soften in the flame.
Gay.
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(b) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
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Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe.
Rambler.
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(c) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
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(d) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
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Music can soften pain to ease.
Pope.
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(e) To make calm and placid.
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All that cheers or softens life.
Pope.
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(f) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
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He bore his great commision in his look,
But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke.
Dryden.
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(g) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
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(h) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
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(i) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
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Sof"ten, v. i. To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
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