relieving
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɹɪˈliːvɪŋ/
- present participle of relieve#English|relieve
relieving
- That brings relief. [from 16th c.]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:
- Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:
relieving (plural relievings)
- (archaic) A change in colour, texture, etc. that relieves monotony.
- 1850, George Field, Rudiments of the Painters' Art (page 68)
- Purple flowers are commonly contrasted with centres or variegations of bright yellow, as blue flowers are with like relievings of orange […]
- 1855, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine (volume 5, page 42)
- The light—divested of its aching brilliancy, lies sweetly upon the floor, checkered as that old man's life, in its quaint, yet charming relievings of shadow.
- 1850, George Field, Rudiments of the Painters' Art (page 68)
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