Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving life or spirit; having power to revivify or animate; inspiriting; invigorating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing that necessary for
life . - adjective Describing that which creates or engenders life, a source of life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective giving or having the power to give life and spirit
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Examples
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Among those setting the lobsters free was Vikrant Bhasin, a chef from Cambridge, Massachusetts who called the life-giving experience "beautiful."
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The ancient Egyptians watched helpless each summer as the life-giving Nile receded and left their fields barren.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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This doctrine points definitively to the New Man, to the “last Adam [who] became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15: 45), the principle of the charity that “never ends” (1 Cor 13: 8).
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The $865 million project equipped the semi-autonomous SDO craft to orbit the sun for five years, sending back advanced data about the life-giving star.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Provides X-Ray And Ultraviolet Images Of the Sun (PHOTOS) 2011
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Egypt, eternally sensitive about who controls the Nile's life-giving waters, is deeply worried about Sudan's future and fears a new regime in the south may begin diverting the river's waters.
Eric Margolis: Sudan Faces an Earthquake Eric Margolis 2011
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The ancient Egyptians watched helpless each summer as the life-giving Nile receded and left their fields barren.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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Mengestu is commenting on the life-giving properties of make-believe, as Jonas tries to save his parents, his job, his marriage with the drama and depth of his tales.
Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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And where I am going there are no curious fish to create life-giving ripples against vastness.
Against the V Darryl Price 2011
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Mengestu is commenting on the life-giving properties of make-believe, as Jonas tries to save his parents, his job, his marriage with the drama and depth of his tales.
Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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He decided to create beings made in His image and likeness, and fill them with the gift of His life-giving love, it is within a woman's being -- within her heart and soul -- where His love first established a foundation and home.
Liturgy 2009
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