harden'd

English

Adjective

harden'd (comparative more harden'd, superlative most harden'd)

1. Obsolete form of hardened.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCCXXI. A Mouse and a Kite.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 281:

     There are, ’tis true, ſome People ſo Harden’d in Wickedneſs, as to have No Senſe at all of the moſt Friendly Offices, or the Higheſt Benefits.

   • 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII. [Cæneus transform’d to an Eagle.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 427:

     The Monſter mad with Rage, and ſtung with Smart, / His Lance directed at the Hero’s Heart: / It ſtrook; but bounded from his harden’d Breaſt, […]

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 258:

     “Nobody loves a play better than you do, or can have gone much farther to see one.” “True, to see real acting, good harden’d real acting; but I would hardly walk from this room to the next, to look at the raw efforts of those who have not been bred to the trade,—a set of gentlemen and ladies, who have all the disadvantages of education and decorum to struggle through.”

   • 1823, Charles Molloy Westmacott, “Pindaric Address to the Royal Academicians”, in Annual Critical Catalogue to the Royal Academy; republished in The Spirit of the Public Journals‎^[1], London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, page 223:

     That is—I fear you are most harden'd sinners, / Who in close coffers keep the light of grace / From needy brothers and from young beginners, / That it may shine upon your own dull race.

   • 1919, Herbert Trench, “Battle of the Marne”, in Poems with Fables in Prose […], volume I, London: Constable and Company, stanza X, page 208:

     Harden'd are we by Life: its iron pains, / Its shunless endings, do we know; […]