enliven
verb (used with object)
to make vigorous or active; invigorate.
unenlivened
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a word derived from
enliven.
Example Sentences
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On the page, unenlivened by Nabokov's rich accent or his antic platform mannerisms, this methodical tracing of specifics could be slow going.
From Time Magazine Archive
About them was but an endless reach of dead, unenlivened dreary white, the dull white of a tombstone, and they knew that they were the helpless prisoners of this solitude.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
Memory could only re-give her, with single, passive fidelity, what she had seen, unmodified, motionless, unenlivened, like a picture of her boy on canvas.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
Hence their histories are too often mere barren chronological details, or fulsome panegyrics on their princes, unenlivened by a single spark of philosophy or criticism.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott
Let it not therefore be imagined that his is a state of unenlivened toil and hardship.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
