There was a slight lessening now of the storm's fury.

There comes a bare lighting-up in the east, just a slight lessening of the darkness that is everywhere.

Within a few hours even a slight lessening of the tension makes the day's events seem to fall back a long way into the past.

He wished that there might be even the slightest lessening of the darkness.

5th day.-Thesame pitching down into the ocean's depths, the same unbounded waste of surging waters, but a slight lessening of the sea-sickness.