Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which enlivens or makes gay.
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- verb Present participle of
enliven .
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- adjective giving spirit and vivacity
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Examples
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She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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The reason it’s enlivening is because of the pace is accelerated through ultra-short paragraphs.
Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done 2009
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I.N.C. had now resolved to take no risks; they entered into negotiations with Sem Benelli, a well-known poet of the school which some critics call enlivening and other critics call inflammatory.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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Vanity Fair, namely enlivening a potentially stuffy period flick by switching the locale to somewhere far more exotic.
DVD Times 2009
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Suggestions already included the addition of a new Anzac gallery at the war memorial along with Anzac scholarships and "enlivening" commemorations with new monuments abroad ".
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Suggestions already included the addition of a new Anzac gallery at the war memorial along with Anzac scholarships and "enlivening" commemorations with new monuments abroad ".
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Now we have Fred Kaplan's enlivening "1959: The Year Everything Changed," which really could be called The Fifties, but that was already taken by journalist David Halberstam's fine historical account in 1993.
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
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If the horn is buried for the entire winter — the season when the Earth is most inwardly alive — all this life will be preserved in the manure, turning the contents of the horn into an extremely concentrated, enlivening and fertilizing force.
Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure? jaY MCINERNEY 2010
GHibbs commented on the word enlivening
My adjectival use: 'Swimming is often an enlivening experience.'
August 22, 2011