Obs. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That enhances.

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1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xxi. 24. The proud man and the enhaunsende hymself [Vulg. arrogans] is cleped vntaȝt.

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1590.  Greene, Orl. Fur. (1861), 90. Saba, whose enhancing streams Cut ’twixt the Tartars and the Russians.

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1606.  Hieron, Wks., I. 44. The engrossing merchant, the enhaunsing husbandman.

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1715.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 10. A gradual and more enhauncing Augmentation of the Expression.

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