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  • verb Present participle of revel.
  • noun A revel.

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Examples

  • Allow me to state for the record that mid-week revelling is not the domain of the post-twenty-five year old.

    I’m getting too old for this « Sven’s guide to… 2007

  • Though the timing on 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' couldn't have been worse -- the idea of revelling in wretched excess when untold thousands are losing their homes, their jobs, their minds.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Though the timing on 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' couldn't have been worse -- the idea of revelling in wretched excess when untold thousands are losing their homes, their jobs, their minds.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Though the timing on 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' couldn't have been worse -- the idea of revelling in wretched excess when untold thousands are losing their homes, their jobs, their minds.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Though the timing on 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' couldn't have been worse -- the idea of revelling in wretched excess when untold thousands are losing their homes, their jobs, their minds.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • That picture seems to symbolise the excesses of our Western culture, a kind of revelling in our material wealth.

    Nothing much Glenda Larke 2008

  • The campaigners also accused companies such as Lockheed and BAE Systems of "revelling" in the opportunity to sell equipment "battle-tested" in Iraq to those countries. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Arms fair criticised for using Iraq war to market weapons 2005

  • The campaigners also accused companies such as Lockheed and BAE Systems of 'revelling' in the opportunity to sell equipment 'battle-tested' in Iraq to those countries.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Arms fair criticised for using Iraq war to market weapons 2005

  • There may be nobler, there may be happier, ways of awaiting the end -- but whether "revelling" or "refraining," we are all waiting the end.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Fans could depart revelling again in an efficient dismissal, illuminated by the slippery attacking of two livewire wingers and an impressively mobile midfield.

    Chelsea's win over Wolverhampton Wanderers 'not critical' 2011

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