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Definition of Entertains
1. entertain [v] - See also: entertain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entertains
Literary usage of Entertains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick (1913)
"It conjures the scene of their real triumphs, for woman displays herself when
she "entertains" as man does when he fights. She patronizes her friends, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"But he entertains the thought that, in a later epoch " an orang-outang or a
chimpanzee may develop the organs which serve for walking, grasping objects, ..."
3. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York by Solomon Northup (1855)
"... CABIN — THEIR KINDNESS RACHEL REPEATS THE OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY—* LAWSON
entertains HIS COMPANIONS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"It is, we are convinced, utterly false that Mr. Gladstone entertains, or ever
did entertain, the extravagant opinions which were freely imputed to him by ..."
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