blithen

present singular third person blithens · participle present blithening · participle past blithened · past blithened

1. transitiveTo make glad or blithe; gladden.

   Let every life be content with its share Of dew, and sunshine, and blithening air.

   1904, William Wells Newell, Words for Music, page 71

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   When we entered the parlour, which had been so often blithened with the jocose spirit of its defunct mistress, we confess that our emotions were almost too great for our fortitude, […]

   1895, John Galt, The Entail Or the Lairds of Grippy, page 304

2. intransitiveTo become glad or blithe; gladden.

   The villages blithened when he came; […]

   1924, Joshua Freeman Crowell, Florence Hathaway Crowell, Cape Cod in Poetry, page 16