Verb (used with object) : The wit of Mencken enlivened his age. ,Flowers enliven any room. From Dictionary.com.
Originally conceived as an impressionistic portrait of Spencer, the image broadened into the enlivenment of her popular concept of the "under thirty" generation. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
And the older people, while they enjoy the spiritual enlivenment of the revival, also come under the power of social enjoyment and give themselves over to a season of communion together. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Their anger with the corporation was ironically but nevertheless predictably an enlivenment of their musical sensibility, for their new album would be a declaration of independence from the establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Slick The Biography]
Practice in the speech of pleasantry may have great value in giving a man repose, in giving him that saving grace, an appreciation of the humorous, in affording him a means of relief or enlivenment to the serious speech. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Fancy that, by way of enlivenment to poor Georgina after her nervous fever!. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
Then suddenly came enlivenment: a recollection of news in the morning's paper. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Her visitor's reception of Philippa's greeting promised little in the way of enlivenment. From Wordnik.com. [The Zeppelin's Passenger] Reference
I cannot describe the odd sense of enlivenment, of pleasure I had when I saw this new sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Folks] Reference
Hood and his merry men did their exploits, and king Rufus was slain; the enlivenment and decoration of the Feast of. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
It was while traversing this bend that we witnessed a singular mirage that lent to the day all the enlivenment it had. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
On the whole, the days which brought all the brother ministers to the parsonage were days of enlivenment to all us young people. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
The winter of 1770 was one of unusual severity; and she found resources for a further enlivenment of the court in the frost itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Marie Antoinette]
While debating whether to lunch at his loathed club or at a home loathed more, but open to bright enlivenment any instant, Lord Ormont beheld. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
But some animating vision nevertheless seemed miraculously to have penetrated the dense green wall, to the obvious enlivenment of the company. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Yet there were sweet chains in the little hands that held her gown, and in the thought of the lonely old man who depended on her for enlivenment. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
The big generator is that source of inspiration, enthusiasm, enlivenment, you know that which can let you say "glory hallelujah" that which opens our heart, really raises you up. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
While debating whether to lunch at his loathed club or at a home loathed more, but open to bright enlivenment any instant, Lord Ormont beheld a hat lifted and Captain May saluting him. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Perhaps indeed he was acting only more than usual in his customary spirit -- thoughtfully contributing, for Nick's enlivenment, a purple rim of mystery to an horizon now so dreadfully let down. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
I think I have already remarked upon the extraordinary enlivenment of wits which comes to the man who has been without a meal or so and does not know when or where he is again to break his fast. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
I experienced a sudden sense of the enlivenment of the faculties: I must now depend upon wit or cunning or human nature to win my way, not upon mere skill of the hand or strength in the bent back. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
The causal mechanism has been postulated to be a field effect of consciousness: enlivenment of the unified field by the peace-creating group produces an effect of collective coherence that extends into the larger population. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference
Mr. Kendal had from the first contemplated the possibility of the long duration of such lingering, and did his utmost to promote such enlivenment and change for the attendants as was consistent with their care of the sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
"That might only be a feint to be the more sudden with us," said his wife, actuated in part by the diversion of alarming her father-in - law, and in part really fired by the hope of such an effectual enlivenment of the dulness of Sheffield. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
And all this, observe, not in a tragic, adventurous, or military story, but merely as the further enlivenment of a narrative intended to be amusing; and as a properly representative average of the statistics of civilian mortality in the centre of London. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
And all this, observe, not in a tragic, adventurous, or military story, but merely as the further enlivenment of a narrative intended to be amusing; and as a properly representative average of the statistics of civilian mortality in the center of London. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Nor is there happier promise of life-long domestic enlivenment for a prescient man of Letters than he has in the contemplation of a pretty face showing the sensitiveness to the sting, which is not allowed to poison her temper, and is short of fetching tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
The presence of the two captains and their officers was a great pleasure and enlivenment to the Gardiners, who received from them many comforts very needful in that inclement climate to people lately come from some of the hottest regions of the southern hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field] Reference
On which neutral ground Phoebe took her stand, and the French style and fashion so impressed Augusta's maid, that she forced her ladyship to accept even simplicity as 'the thing,' and to sink back rebuked for the barbarism of hinting at the enlivenment of pink ribbons or scarlet flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
But he was now a young man, stoutly and cognizantly on the climb, with a good aim overhead, axed green youth's enthusiasms a step below his heels: one of the lovers of life, beautiful to behold, when we spy into them; generally their aspect is an enlivenment, whatever may be the carving of their features. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Our only enlivenment. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
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