All 3 Uses of
revel
in
The Magic Mountain
- He reveled in the skill he had acquired, which opened up inaccessible worlds and almost obliterated barriers.†
Chpt 6.7 *
- They all reveled in pictures of people caught in the flash of magnesium, with vacant eyes staring dully from faces frozen in cramped expressions, as if the corpses of murder victims had been set up in chairs, eyes wide open.†
Chpt 7.6
- It was at about the same late hour as on that first night of revels with Pieter Peeperkorn of majestic, brotherly memory when he finally went to bed, his head hot and flushed; and from two to seven o'clock he dreamed of his magic box.†
Chpt 7.7
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."