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Life-giving   /laɪf-gˈɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Life-giving

adjective
1.
Giving or having the power to give life and spirit.  Synonym: vitalizing.  "Life-giving love and praise" , "The vitalizing rays of the warming sun"






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"Life-giving" Quotes from Famous Books



... came, but Thor sought for none. The worst was past; the danger was averted. With the two cold hands still pressed in his own, he bent forward and kissed the pale lips with a life-giving kiss such as Elijah gave to the Shunamite woman's son. Under the warmth of the imprint Claude stirred again ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... the walls of the great home; and the war-worn veterans dearly love to bask in its life-giving rays, or to rest in the shade of ...
— The Boy Life of Napoleon - Afterwards Emperor Of The French • Eugenie Foa

... than a "sacred tree''; it was a tree from whose fruit or juice, as culture advanced, some intoxicating drink was produced. The Gaokerena of the Iranians 10 is exactly parallel. At the resurrection, those who drink of the life-giving juice of this plant will obtain "perfect welfare,'' including deathlessness. It is not, however, either from Iran or from India that the Hebrew tree of life is derived, but from Arabia and Babylonia, where date-wine (cp. Enoch xxiv. 4) is the earliest intoxicant. Of this drink it ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... have finally the life-giving word and the life-preserving care. Probably Jesus first freed His progress from the jostling crowd, and then, when arrived, made the further selection of the three apostles,—the first three of the mighty ones—and, as was becoming, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... Avenue Church never lost the impulse of that movement started by Dr. Bruce. Those who went with him in making the promise breathed into the church the very breath of divine life, and are continuing that life-giving work ...
— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon


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