v. [f. LOUD a. + -EN5.]
1. intr. To become or grow loud or louder.
a. 1848. R. W. Hamilton, in Chr. Sabbath (1852), xiii. 367. The birthday song of creation may well rise and louden into a new song.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! (1861), 505. An angry growl from the westward heavens … rolled and loudened nearer and nearer.
2. trans. To make loud or louder. rare–1.
1898. J. E. C. Bodley, France, I. I. iv. 236. Internecine strife ought to be hushed instead of being loudened.
Hence Loudening ppl. a., that grows louder.
1805. A. Wilson, in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 173. Groaning we start! and at the loudening war, Ask our bewildered senses where we are.
1864. R. F. Burton, Dahome, I. 183. A loudening hum of voices heralded a rush of warriors into the Uhon-nukon, or cleared space, with its central tree.
