Both Uses of
enervate
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.†
Chpt 3 *
- The three o'clock sun shone full upon him, and the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
weaken mentally or morally
or more rarely:
disturb the composure of
or more rarely:
disturb the composure of