enliven
verb (used with object)
to make vigorous or active; invigorate.
enlivenment
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a word derived from
enliven.
Example Sentences
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The only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was while traversing this bend that we witnessed a singular mirage that lent to the day all the enlivenment it had.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.
From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene
On these occasions they never left their tower and its court, and had no enlivenment save an occasional gift of dainties or message of inquiry from the ladies at Bellaise.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
It cost a trifle more, but it brought more money into the place, and enabled the villagers to partake of the enlivenment, without the feeling that it was a Barmecide feast.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips
