Both Uses of
abate
in
King Lear
- My lord, I know not what the matter is; but to my judgment your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a great abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependants as in the duke himself also and your daughter.†
Scene 1.4 *abatement = the act of reducing in amount or intensity; or the condition of having been reduced in amount or intensity
- Never, Regan: She hath abated me of half my train; Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue, Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:— All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!†
Scene 2.4abated = became less in amount or intensity
Definition:
to become less in amount or intensity