unsadden

English

Etymology

un- +‎ sadden

Verb

unsadden (third-person singular simple present unsaddens, present participle unsaddening, simple past and past participle unsaddened)

1. (transitive) To relieve from sadness; to cheer.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:

     It unsaddens the melancholy, quickens the dull, awaketh the drowsie, &c.

Related terms

• unsad
• unsadly
• unsadness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unsadden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dunesand, sand dune, unsanded