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
Our next day’s march was unenlivened by any particular incident.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
Yet, seen from the side of posterity, as the father of English poetry, preceded by a long silence or confusion in history, unenlivened by any strain of pure melody, we easily come to reverence him.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Her daughters, good as they were dutiful, by living in a solitude unenlivened by books, and unvaried by improving company, had acquired a manner rather resembling fearfulness than delicacy.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
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
