sadden'd

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sadden'd

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of sadden
    • 1695, , translated by T[heophilus] D[orrington], The Excellent Woman Described by Her True Characters and Their Opposites. , part II, London: John Wyat , page 234:
      And if we may ſay of a Soldier who goes very unwilling to the Fight, that aſſuredly he has little or no Courage; ſo we may ſay of a Chriſtian who is too much sadden’d and dejected at ſuffering that he has not any true Patience.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 334:
      Fanny’s heart was not absolutely the only sadden’d one amongst them, as she soon began to acknowledge herself.
    • 1871, T[homas] Ashe, Poems, H. Knights, , page 80:
      And anything she look’d on sadden’d her; []

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