enliven
verb (used with object)
to make vigorous or active; invigorate.
enlivener
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a word derived from
enliven.
Example Sentences
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I am glad he is with you: he will prove as good an enlivener of the spirits and invigourate the conversation amongst you, as much as Bath waters do The Blood.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
Different parties of pleasure were talked of: but still the enlivener of every party was not to be in any one of them.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
The spirit of White’s and Brookes’, the companion of a prince and a score of noblemen, the enlivener of every fashionable table, was forgotten by all but this one doctor.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
The trumpet however is a necessary instrument about a Court, and a proper enlivener of a concert, though of no great harmony by itself.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
So uneventful is life in these out-of-the-way places that such an arrival is the greatest possible social enlivener.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
