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lighten englanniksi
To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Henry Herringman|section=stanza 231, p. 59|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36598.0001.001
(RQ:Peele Old Wives Tale)
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) this dreadful night,That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roarsAs doth the lion.
{{quote-book|en|year=1986|author=Helen Garner|title=Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987|publisher=Text Publishing|year_published=2022|page=182
To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2) behold his eye,As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forthControlling majesty:
To illuminate with knowledge.
(quote-book)|chapter=Of the Soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof|title=Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies|location=London|publisher=John Standish|page=10|url=http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=richard2&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
To make light or lighter in weight.
To make less serious or more cheerful.
(RQ:KJV)
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- O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.