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Definition of Enervates
1. enervate [v] - See also: enervate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enervates
Literary usage of Enervates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks Concerning the Government and the Laws of the United States of by Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1785)
"... of corruption towards the attainment of arbitrary power, enervates the great
feelings of the ..."
2. A History of Classical Philology from the Seventh Century, B.C. to the by Harry Thurston Peck (1911)
"Such shame enervates and depresses the mind and youths then avoid others, because
they have lost their self-respect.”' Note also the following brief dictum: ..."
3. Songs of the Day and Night: Or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public by Alexander Balloch Grosart (1890)
"I would not merely grieve, I also would relieve ; For 'tis a per'lous art That
seeks to act a part; All playing with our tears Enervates, yea, and sears. 4. ..."
4. Annual Register (1801)
"... enervates the body ; whence both in the natural and moral (late of man, ...
which enervates their force ..."
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