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Girls' Dormitory is an intelligent exanimation of a first love too robust to be dissipated in the adolescent dreaming which initiated it.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cruel examination, an exanimation I may call it, had this brave result.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He said he made a hasty exanimation before he called me up, and he is sure a number of my electrical inventions are missing.

From Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]