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Antonyms for enervation

Grammar : Noun
Spell : verb en-er-veyt; adjective ih-nur-vit
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈɛn ərˌveɪt; adjective ɪˈnɜr vɪt

Definition of enervation

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French énervation, from Late Latin enervationem (nominative enervatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin enervare "weaken," literally "cut the sinews of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + nervus "sinew" (see nerve). Figurative sense is from 1550s.
  • noun debilitation
Example sentences :
  • There was therefore not only a denaturation, but an enervation of our poetry.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 » by Various
  • Nothing but harass, enervation, lassitude, deafening clamor.
  • Extract from : « His Excellency the Minister » by Jules Claretie
  • And from this time his enervation was steadily on the increase.
  • Extract from : « The Campaign of Chancellorsville » by Theodore A. Dodge
  • The soirée at Sabine Marsy's had caused Vaudrey to feel something like the enervation that follows intoxication.
  • Extract from : « His Excellency the Minister » by Jules Claretie
  • All this time the heavy sobbing of Felicien was heard, as upon the landing-place he wept in the enervation of hope.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • Nor are luxury or enervation more powerful in their effects.
  • Extract from : « The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races » by Arthur, comte de Gobineau
  • The feminine trick was pardoned to her because her unaccustomed betrayal of that form of enervation was desired.
  • Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith
  • But one could see that Abner was suffering more than the rest, and from something beyond the enervation of dog-days.
  • Extract from : « The Copperhead » by Harold Frederic
  • Hortense did not even seek to shake off the enervation into which her will was slowly sinking.
  • Extract from : « The Eight Strokes of the Clock » by Maurice Le Blanc
  • Perhaps the curious sense of enervation was due only to the heat of midsummer in a Southern city.
  • Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Synonyms for enervation

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