Entrain

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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