"enlessen" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "En- (an intensifying prefix) + lessen (to reduce, to diminish).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enlessens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "enlessen (third-person singular simple present enlessens, present participle enlessening, simple past and past participle enlessened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c 1527–1533 (published in 1870): Nicholas Pocock, Records of the Reformation: The Divorce 1527–1533, p330",
          "text": "PLEASE it your highness to be advertised that this present morning came unto prior Thomas unto his cell wherein I am lodged, the emperor’s great ambassador, accompanied with a great many gentlemen of Spayne, and demanded of him how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only enlessen and elevate the pope’s authority, but also was noyful and odious to all realms Cristenyd."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to belittle, to denigrate; to weaken; to lessen."
      ],
      "id": "en-enlessen-en-verb-8PcBBOuL",
      "links": [
        [
          "belittle",
          "belittle"
        ],
        [
          "denigrate",
          "denigrate"
        ],
        [
          "weaken",
          "weaken"
        ],
        [
          "lessen",
          "lessen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) to belittle, to denigrate; to weaken; to lessen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈlɛsə̆n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlessen"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "En- (an intensifying prefix) + lessen (to reduce, to diminish).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enlessens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enlessened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "enlessen (third-person singular simple present enlessens, present participle enlessening, simple past and past participle enlessened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c 1527–1533 (published in 1870): Nicholas Pocock, Records of the Reformation: The Divorce 1527–1533, p330",
          "text": "PLEASE it your highness to be advertised that this present morning came unto prior Thomas unto his cell wherein I am lodged, the emperor’s great ambassador, accompanied with a great many gentlemen of Spayne, and demanded of him how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only enlessen and elevate the pope’s authority, but also was noyful and odious to all realms Cristenyd."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to belittle, to denigrate; to weaken; to lessen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belittle",
          "belittle"
        ],
        [
          "denigrate",
          "denigrate"
        ],
        [
          "weaken",
          "weaken"
        ],
        [
          "lessen",
          "lessen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) to belittle, to denigrate; to weaken; to lessen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈlɛsə̆n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enlessen"
}