streightened
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[edit]streightened
- Obsolete form of straightened.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 106:
- My Pen, streightened by the Rapidity of Time, the Abundance of Things I have to say, and the almost inſenſible Progress of the first Improvements, flies like an Arrow over numberless Ages;