Definition of "heightening" []

• Present participle of heighten. (verb)

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• "He borrows only to shew his own Talents in heightening, refining and polishing all that is furnished him by others, and thereby secures his Character as a fine Writer, from being confounded with that of the Dull Copyer."
• "The “Attention Trust” folks appear to be interested in heightening awareness of the ways in which our web-activities are consolidated and create an “identity”."
• "Who could disentangle the effect of the Great War, both in heightening Canada's sense of her own personality, her own individuality as a nation, and on the other hand her sense of the inseparable, the unseverable, bonds that join us all together?"