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Definition of Galvanizes
1. galvanize [v] - See also: galvanize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galvanizes
Literary usage of Galvanizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"true relation with it, and is, in fact, dead; although she galvanizes herself
into a semblance of life, and stands behind her counter, afflicting the world ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... and for the zeal and energy with which he ever and anon galvanizes the weakly
frame of positivism until it looks more than ever like John Bunyan's Pope ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... its staff close by gives an occasional sad flap us a puff of air galvanizes
it into momentary life. ..."
4. The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth (1921)
"A demand backed by reason will usually find him inert; a demand backed by votes
galvanizes him into nervous attention. When, therefore, it was apparent that ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"... which shall manifest my great jM'i-sonal respect for this able writer, and
for the zeal and energy with which he - and anon galvanizes the weakly frame ..."
6. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1900)
"Mr. Yarrow, on the other hand, invariably galvanizes the tubes both internally
and externally, but this does not appear to be necessary in the case of a ..."
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