LekhoriLekhoriTo make less; to diminish; to reduce.
a. 1686, Benjamin Calamy, a sermon Charity […] shall lessen his punishment.
To become less.
unless.
Ober closed his encomium with the serious statement that “Lessen he could marry Miss Jennie he would be a bachelor the balance of his life," to which the drayman replied that " If Oi were Miss Janie Oi'd black yer oi the minute ye thought of such a thing. The oidee."
From Middle English lessenen, lasnen, equivalent to less + -en (verbal suffix).
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