[f. prec. + -ING1.] a. The action of the vb. ENLIVEN. b. concr. Something that enlivens.
1628–77. Feltham, Resolves, I. lxxxiv. (1709), 170 (R.). The good man is full of joyful enlivenings, which the world does never reach to.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 141. Without insouling or inlivening of it [the body].
1772. Ann. Reg., 48/1. One of the greatest objects of his [Sully’s] policy … was the enlivening the provinces by agriculture, the true source of riches.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 21. Central Africa … appeared upon the maps a blank of white paper, with enlivenings of ostriches and elephants.
