saddening

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Saddening, sad′n-ing, n. a method of applying mordants in dyeing and printing cloths, so as to give duller shades to the colours employed.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Saddening, surely, it is, to say the least, to realize that the humanity of which we are a part is tainted with so subtle a disease of lying, and so depraved an appetite for lies.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard

Ironing or Saddening: Prepare a bath with 3½ gallons nitrate of iron, 80° Tw.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin

Saddening it is when the night has descended, Thus to sit here, Pensively musing on episodes ended Many a year.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Saddening were the brief and almost unvaried histories recorded on its unpretending monuments.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various