Citations:ensweeten

English citations of ensweeten

1. Metaphorically render sweeter or more pleasant.
   • 1814, Sir Egerton Brydges, Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived, page 324:

     Howbeit might it happely please the sweetest intercessour, to ensweeten the bitterest gall of spite, and to encalme the roughest tempest of rage; I could cordially wish that Nashes S. Fame might be the period of my inuectiues: and the excellent Gentlewoman, my patronesse, or rather championesse in this quarrell, is meeter by nature, and fitter by nurture, to be an enchaunting angell with her white quill, then a tormenting fury with her blacke inke.

   • 1844, Thomas Jackson, The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D.: Sometime President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Dean of Peterborough, page 477:

     Of civil dissension there can no good come; the very mention of war would be as the rubbing of an unhealed wound or bleeding scar; dulce nomen pacis, the very name of peace would ensweeten our thoughts, season our cogitations, and add strength and courage to our mutual endeavours for the establishment of it.

   • 1890, Frederick Arnold, The Philosopher in Slippers: Zigzag Views of Life and Society, page 254:

     …you must be of morose disposition if you do not gather up some pleasant words and looks whereby to ensweeten the sweet air. Then the gay children of pleasure plot and plan for the summer…

   • 2003, Laurence Hope, India’s Love Lyrics Including Garden of Kama 1919, page 8:

     […] To ensweeten my sleep with lies,
     

     To dream I lie in the light of your long lost eyes,
     

     My lips set free. […]