What's the difference between revelment and revelry?
Revelment
Definition:
(n.) The act of reveling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
(6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
(11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
(13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
(14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
(18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
(20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."
Revelry
Definition:
(n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Makarska offers up some fairly lively beach bars, with vodka and Red Bull prices at a troublingly low level – so the revelry continued.
(2) We know Miley Cyrus has at least made it to the event after a night of revelry in Amsterdam's coffee shops .
(3) Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison for the Guardian Katrin and Raffaele Ausanio, the couple running the kitchen, said it was much easier feeding people during the week-long revelry of the funfair, because then they had a team of waiters to help.
(4) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others.
(5) "A jubilant burst of celebrations in London and all over the country officially marks the start of the jubilee week revelries.
(6) Did you ever get together with all the punk females for an afternoon of revelry?
(7) It seems the stumble was caused by an excess of West End revelry rather than a fight to get to the front of the queue.
(8) Perla (right) and Elizabeth Ovitz: as the five sisters and two brothers were all good-looking and musically gifted, the stage seemed the perfect career However, Perla Ovitz insisted that she and her family never took part in the "nightlife" of the death camp: they never performed in these drunken revelries, never sang in public nor entertained parties of kapos and SS men.
(9) Superb footage from northeastern Brazil of a Meracatu group - a "fusion of pre-existing forms of Carnival revelry", of Afro-indigenous origin.
(10) What this one word "barista" captures, in an intense shot, is a shift away from drunken revelry.
(11) His tours overseas for the council, many of which reappeared transmogrified in his novels, were invariably marked by unscheduled revelry, as well as by serious literary discussions.
(12) Meanwhile, Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the Labour, was returning from a night of partying at Glastonbury festival, having posted pictures of his revelry on social media.
(13) Past midnight and into the early hours of Saturday morning, there is no tangible upsurge in threat and no sign of the revelry abating.
(14) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others," Obama said.
(15) Photograph: Reuters Even in the state of Pernambuco, the epicenter of the Zika outbreak and a historic hub of Carnival revelry, officials said tourism has not been hit.
(16) And now a Saturday night of revelry in central London .
(17) In Manhattan, and across America, “huge, light-hearted throngs ambled down autoless streets.” Earth Day had been born, an outburst of protest – and revelry – that involved everyone from save-the-whales activists to opponents of new freeways.
(18) Usually, these cruises are said to be lively enough, but we were on the Hit The Deck Tour, celebrating the start of summer, where the revelry both on and off board was set to be several notches higher; to this end enormous speaker systems, booming out David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia, had been placed on all the boats.