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blithen

verb

Etymology

From blithe + -en.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻ — “shiny; white”
  2. derived from *bʰlī-✻ — “fine; light; pleasant”
  3. inherited from *blīþiz✻ — “friendly; gentle, mild; pleasing”
  4. inherited from *blīþī✻
  5. inherited from blīþe — “happy, gentle”
  6. inherited from blithe — “glad, happy, joyful; causing joy, joyous; gentle, mild; gracious, merciful; bright, shining; beautiful, fair”
  7. suffixed as blithen — “blithe + en”

Definitions

  1. To make glad or blithe

    To make glad or blithe; gladden.

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

  2. To become glad or blithe

    To become glad or blithe; gladden.

    • The villages blithened when he came; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blithen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA