chafen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Faith, picturing to its view this cross, the Holy Spirit engraving it on the heart in spiritual regeneration, the whole soul receiving him whom it lifts up, as its "wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption," gently and effectually transforms the spirit, that was chafened and restless, into the "meekness and gentleness of Christ.""
- "Tush, tush, it avails nought to chafen, or to chide, […]"
- "And while this was being accomplished, Time was healing all chafened surfaces and rounding off all rough and broken edges with his slow but unfailing tools […]"
- "In a case of the head being hung back a little on one side, the shoulder should be lifted up by pressing it (with the hand) after chafening it, so as to bring the head at the door of the passage and the child should be drawn straight downward."
Etymology
From chafe + -en.