Meaning of Entrain | Babel Free

Definitions

Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive.

archaic, countable, transitive, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he greater number of reasonable people attributed the want of entrain and dullness of the whole thing to the presence of Monsignore ——.”

“To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the first rank is reached with difficulty.”

“Mr. Robert Newman’s orchestral concert season came to a brilliant close on Wednesday evening, when [Pyotr Ilyich] Tschaikowsky’s favourite symphony was rendered with all the sympathy and splendid entrain which Mr. Henry Wood commands from his band.”

“[Charles] Lecocq’s score to Les Prés Saint-Gervais was written in a manner suited to its period and classic subject, without the bouffe effects of a Giroflé Girofla, or the entrain of an Angot, […]”

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