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- noun Something or someone that causes
enervation .
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Examples
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As they exited the dimly lit corridor that led to the classroom and approached the enervator, Mr Robinson spoke, Do you enjoy teaching, Doctor Smith?
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Claude idly watched waves flow from where his fingers touched the wall of the enervator, the setting sun casting royal purple on the cityscape below.
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The enervator stopped and Smith led the other man to his office door.
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For my own part, I believed him capable of any thing, where he was sure of his own safety: For when any danger immediately threatened himself, there did not breathe a more abject spirit; and yet he was, at his outset in life, said not to want courage; but vice, my dear sir, is a great enervator of the soul.
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[(my) 29 (dear sir, is a g) 9 (r) 2 (eat enervator of the soul.)]
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For rich idle people, I dare say, it may be as innocent an amusement as any other, but I find it a sad enervator. "
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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For rich idle people, I dare say, it may be as innocent an amusement as any other, but I find it a sad enervator. "
The Caxtons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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