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  • verb archaic second-person singular present form of quicken

Etymologies

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From quicken +‎ -est, the archaic second-person singular suffix

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Examples

  • Now to thee I speak, O my soul, thou art my better part: for thou quickenest the mass of my body, giving it life, which no body can give to a body: but thy God is even unto thee the Life of thy life.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Thou light of my heart, Thou bread of my inmost soul, Thou Power who givest vigour to my mind, who quickenest my thoughts, I loved Thee not.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Thou light of my heart, Thou bread of my inmost soul, Thou Power who givest vigour to my mind, who quickenest my thoughts, I loved Thee not.

    The First Book 1909

  • ” Now to thee I speak, O my soul, thou art my better part: for thou quickenest the mass of my body, giving it life, which no body can give to a body: but thy God is even unto thee the Life of thy life.

    The Tenth Book 1909

  • Who is like unto Thee, Lord of mighty acts, and who resembleth Thee, O King, who killest and quickenest, and causest salvation to spring forth?

    Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891

  • It may be found in the Prayer Book just quoted on p. 44: 'Thou, O Lord, art mighty for ever, Thou quickenest the dead, Thou art mighty to save.

    Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891

  • Thou sustainest the living with loving-kindness, quickenest the dead with great mercy, supportest the falling, healest the sick, loosest the bound, and keepest Thy faith to them that sleep in the dust.

    Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891

  • And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

    The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867

  • That quickenest with light and beauty the leaden face of matter,

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • That quickenest with light and beauty the leaden face of matter,

    Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

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