So the balance-sheet of the peace, after three years from the armisticethat is, three years from the Warshows on the whole a worsening of the situation.

Society can see nothing to originate, an incalculable number of attempts to better human conditions always proving failures, and worsening the human status.

Aggravation N. aggravation, worsening, heightening; exacerbation; exasperation; overestimation &c 482; exaggeration &c 549.

But when conditions worsen, food becomes scarce or the forest floor becomes dry, the formerly distinct creatures coalesce into a single being.

His manners are worsened, for he twice made to kiss me and drew back.

In spite of the economic consolidation at the beginning of the Later Han dynasty, and in spite of the more balanced trade, the political situation within China steadily worsened from A.D. 80 onwards.

The lines in his face deepened into wrinkles; his white mustache could not pretend to conceal his mouth, worsened by the loss of a tooth or two; and the long, thin hand that propped his head was crossed with blue, distended veins.

Then, again, there was the positive praise of Prussia, to which steadily worsening case the Carlyleans were already committed.

As such, his capacity for evil was greatly increased and his chances of ultimate salvation correspondingly worsened.

"I thought," said he, "that they all committed a mortal sin to advise him the voyage, because the whole kingdom was in fair peace at home and with all neighbors, and, so soon as he departed, the state of the kingdom did nought but worsen.