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abate
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The Return of the King
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- But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated.†
Chpt 5.7 *abated = became less in amount or intensity
- Looking back they saw the dome of the house crack and smokes issue forth; and then with a rush and rumble of stone it fell in a flurry of fire; but still unabated the flames danced and flickered among the ruins.†
Chpt 5.7unabated = without a reduction in amount or intensitystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabated means not. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- But Faramir burned with a fever that would not abate.†
Chpt 5.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(abate) to become less in amount or intensity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)