sadden'd

English

Verb

sadden'd

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of sadden
   • 1695, [Jacques du Bosc], 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: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] 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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