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- noun Plural form of
enlivenment .
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Examples
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[FN#500] The fountain-bowl is often ornamented by a rude mosaic of black and white marble with enlivenments of red stone or tile in complicated patterns.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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500 The fountain-bowl is often ornamented by a rude mosaic of black and white marble with enlivenments of red stone or tile in complicated patterns.
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During my sojourn at the court of Philip, I supported with patience the somewhat ceremonious gravity of the Escurial, in the belief that your highness was enjoying meanwhile those festal enlivenments, which none more fully understand how to organize and adorn. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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