Definition of "lowerings" [lowerings]

• Plural form of lowering. (noun)

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• "Projecting into the future, then, I would say Kerry is more likely to engage in actual lowerings of trade barriers."
• "Had not James evinced a deficiency of poetic artifice, we might almost have suspected that these lowerings of gloomy reflection were meant as preparative to the brightest scene of his story; and to contrast with that refulgence of light and loveliness, that exhilarating accompaniment of bird and song, and foliage and flower, and all the revel of the year, with which he ushers in the lady of his heart."
• "Some of the ladies gave him other types of invitations, judging from the suggestive tilts of their smiles or the coy lowerings of demure eyelashes."