Word: softened
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Soften down the Dean's decree...
...editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them in printing his first letter; but finally soften toward him, and remark that "possibly his second may be of a more satisfactory nature. If so, it will avail nothing without his name...