Augments
[ɔ:ɡ'ments]
Examples
- His pain, considered in itself, is painful to us, but augments the idea of our own happiness, and gives us pleasure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In the other, there is often a scarcity, which necessarily augments their value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The monopoly, indeed, raises the rate of mercantile profit and thereby augments somewhat the gain of our merchants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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