All 4 Uses of
revel
in
War and Peace
- And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family.†
Chpt 3 *
- He had never missed a carousal at Danilov's or other Moscow revelers', drank whole nights through, outvying everyone else, and was at all the balls and parties of the best society.†
Chpt 8
- Well, comrades and friends of my youth, we've had our fling and lived and reveled.†
Chpt 8
- Ah, my revels here are over.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(revel) to take delight in
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely today (though common in classic literature), revel can be used as a noun that is a synonym for party -- as when Shakespeare wrote "I delight in masques and revels sometimes."