Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obsolete forms of enhance, enhancement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See enhance.

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  • verb Obsolete spelling of enhance.

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Examples

  • A longer rifle barrel does not equal accuracy, but on opened sight rifles it does inhance sight picture.

    Why Shorter is Better 2007

  • Senate dispos'd of your Estate for the Payment of your Debts, my Wife, who was all Vertue and Goodness, took your Daughter Home to her, giving her a noble Education: Thus did her Bounty towards thy Child inhance the Odium of thy Wickedness towards hers.

    Exilius 2008

  • Some stayed and hindered the Party rather than inhance it.

    Can We Talk Strategy-- Even if it includes thinking about Right Wing Candidates 2007

  • On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather inhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.

    An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

  • Are they able to use a creation they've drawn and inhance it digitally?

    Graphic Design Is Not Art Jonathan 2004

  • How does us getting a $300 rebate cheque inhance our quality of life in Alberta?

    "Please Lord let me have another oil boom and I won't piss it away" daveberta 2005

  • Every thing I see, and hear, and feel, in this great reservoir of folly, knavery, and sophistication, contributes to inhance the value of a country life, in the sentiments of

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Greeks, and who studied this stratagem with an express design to deceive the Jews, as a punishment to them for so cruelly putting him to death, and also to deceive his disciples, in order to inhance the honour of the name of Jesus.

    A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811

  • Cp L Proceed on to morrow & examine The other side if good hunting to winter there, as Salt is an objt. if not to proceed on to Sandy it is probable that a vestle will come in this winter, & that by proceeding on at any distance would not inhance our journey in passing the Rockey mountains, &c. W C.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather inhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.

    An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals David Hume 1743

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