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Definition of Enervators
1. enervator [n] - See also: enervator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enervators
Literary usage of Enervators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"If then, ladies, the big-wigs begin to sneer at the course of our studies, calling
our darling romances foolish, trivial, noxious to the mind, enervators of ..."
2. The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1852)
"If, then, ladies, the bigwigs begin to sneer at the course of our studies, calling
our darling romances foolish, trivial, noxious to the mind, enervators of ..."
3. Sketch Books: The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; The Irish Sketch by William Makepeace Thackeray (1898)
"If then, ladies, the bigwigs begin to sneer at the course of our studies, calling
our darling romances foolish, trivial, noxious to the mind, enervators of ..."
4. The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1889)
"noxious to the mind, enervators of intellect, fathers of idleness, and what not,
let us at once take a high ground, and say, — Go you to your own ..."
5. American Observer Medical Monthly (1869)
"... and Dr. Eldridge has been informed by an " aged practitioner" that five out
of every twelve inmates of such establishments are " self enervators. ..."
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