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Mr. Tom Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

The words "stultify" and "enamored"

Hi

Do you use the words "stultify" and "enamored" in your everyday English? I understand and use the latter, but I need a simple example of "stultify" please.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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) enamoured of [whatever it is]". This is not an expression I'd use every day but it comes reasonably naturally to me. I could go a long time without using the word "stultify" in everyday conversation.

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  • ) enamoured of [whatever it is]".
  • This is not an expression I'd use every day but it comes reasonably naturally to me.
  • I could go a long time without using the word "stultify" in everyday conversation.
  • If I did use it, it would often be as an adjectival present participle: "This job is stultifying".
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I would use "enamoured" (as we spell it in British English) almost exclusively in the expression "enamoured of", and often in the negative: "I'm not (particularly, especially, etc.) enamoured of [whatever it is]". This is not an expression I'd use every day but it comes reasonably naturally to me.

I could go a long time without using the word "stultify" in everyday conversation. If I did
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Mr. TomDo you use the words "stultify" and "enamored" in your everyday English?
No.

CJ
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Hi Tom

I do sometimes use the word "enamored" in everyday conversation, and when I do, I use it pretty much the same way that MrWordy described except that I tend to use the preposition "with" rather than "of".

I feel quite sure that I have never used the word "stultify" in everyday conversation.
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Hello Tom,

If I were to use them, I think the intention would be humorous (probably unsuccessfully so).

(Can "enamoured" be used without humorous or deprecatory intent? I would have thought not.)

Best wishes,

MrP
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Perhaps once a year I find occasion to use the adjective "self-stultifying." I don't know if the hyphen is correct, but I never worry too much about it.

Hmmm, my dictionary doesn't list it, but Google gives it 2500 hits.
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