Word Finder - quickening

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To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

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To come back to life, receive life.

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To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

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Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

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To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

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To become faster.

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My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.

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To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

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to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced

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An increase of speed.

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The action of bringing someone or something to life.

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The first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.

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Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).

Village Methodism shared in the quickening which the Forward Movement brought to the large towns.

It should be for a quickening in the pace of reform.

As the earth of light has five tokens (the mild zephyr, cooling wind, bright light, quickening fire, and clear water), so has the earth of darkness also five (mist, heat, the sirocco, darkness and vapour).

He teaches that the quickening of the Spirit precedes and alone makes possible faith in Christ.

Her heart quickening, she started towards the entrance of the church.

The most conspicuous of the many symbols and signs of his transgression was the golden eagle which he had placed over the great gate of the Temple; its destruction was the obvious means to adopt for the quickening and assertion of Jewish principles.

I rechecked the turf again, both sides, and with a slight quickening of pulse moved the Fisher over the hole.

Lisa returned her attention to the picture, her pulse quickening.

Her blood surged with desire, her breathing quickening.

Her breath caught at the idea of what he did to her, her blood quickening.

She closed her eyes and offered her neck, surprised to find her pulse quickening in excitement.

She did not pull away tonight, but pressed her body to his and he felt her pulse quickening.

Lana's gaze lingered in its direction, her heart quickening.

Planey looked from Brady to the soldier before motioning them down another hallway and quickening his step.

Rhyn opened the door, surprised to find the jailer's room empty.  He'd expected Jared at least.  He closed the door quietly behind him.  He snatched the talisman hanging near the door, the one that freed inmates from their cells.  He ignored the quickening of his pulse as he entered the familiar cell block.

Looking up into his sweet chocolate gaze, feeling the stroke of his hands on her face and neck, even the quickening of pulse — it was as if they had met all over again.

Her pupils dilated as he neared, her breath quickening.

She turned at his voice, blood quickening.

She waited, her pulse quickening.

The difficulty that is naturally experienced by a traveller in finding sufficient support on a sparsely populated "ground" has brought into vogue the traveller on commission who represents several firms. The traveller with salary and allowances for expenses survives, but the quickening induced by an interest in the amount of sales has caused many firms to adopt the principle of commission, which may, however, be an addition to a minimum salary.

The advent of the dynasties, however, produced a quickening rather than a dislocation in the development of civilization.

The influence of dissent also acted along with the rapidly rising religious fervour of the age in quickening in the church that sense of a divine mission, and of the right and power to carry out that mission without obstruction from any worldly authority, which belongs to the essential consciousness of the Christian church.

He is said to have refused the thrones of Poland and Bohemia; and although he made pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to Rome, his interest in ecclesiastical questions was mainly directed towards quickening the religious life of his people.

A quickening pulse was enough to confirm his statement.

His close proximity had the usual effect of quickening her pulse.

Looking up into his sweet chocolate gaze, feeling the stroke of his hands on her face and neck, even the quickening of pulse — it was as if they had met all over again.

He'd taken pleasure in the man's quickening pace, the brief glance round.

In a prayer addressed to " First birth of my birth, first beginning (or principle) of my beginning, first spirit of the spirit in me," he prays " to be restored to his deathless birth (genesis), albeit he is let a.nd hindered by his underlying nature, to the end that according to the pressing need and spur of his longing he may gaze upon the deathless principle with deathless spirit, through the deathless water, through the solid and the air; that he may be re-born through reason (or idea), that he may be consecrated, and the holy spirit breathe in"him, that he may admire the holy fire, that he may behold the abyss of the Orient, dread water, and that he may be heard of the quickening and circumambient ether; for this day he is about to gaze on the revealed reality with deathless eyes; a mortal born of mortal womb, he has been enhanced in excellence by the might of the All-powerful and by the right hand of the Deathless one," &c.

She squeezed her eyes closed, heart quickening and her breathing fast and shallow.

He hesitated before vaulting to the ground, unable to explain the quickening of his heart or the sense that the woman's teal gaze - the color of the eyes of Karyan nobility - reminded him of the home he hadn't thought of in years.

In the journals of these evangelists dark pictures are drawn of the religious state of the country, though their censorious tone detracts greatly from their value; but there is no doubt that the efforts of the Haldanes brought about or coincided with a quickening of the religious spirit of Scotland.

Indeed, as the history of the higher religions shows, religion tends in the end to break away from secular government with its aristocratic traditions, and to revert to the more democratic spirit of the primitive age, having by now obtained a clearer consciousness of its purpose, yet nevertheless clinging to the inveterate forms of human ritual as still adequate to symbolize the consecration of life - the quickening of the will to face life earnestly.

The need of an organ for the dissemination of information, and the quickening of interest in the missionary and educational enterprises of the Triennial Convention, led Rice to establish the Latter Day Luminary (1816) and the Columbian Star, a weekly journal (1822).

He became a skilled linguist, a widely read scholar - though much of his learning was more curious than useful - a powerful preacher, a valued citizen, and a voluminous writer, and did a vast deal for the intellectual and spiritual quickening of New England.

The nature of this is not very easy to analyse, but as mental depression is closely associated with irritation of the vagus nerve and weakening of the circulation, it seems not at all unlikely that mountain air acts by accelerating the pulse and quickening the circulation, and thus creating a sense of well-being.

As speech goes out from a man and reveals his character and thought, so Christ is "sent out from the Father," and as the divine Word is also, in accordance with the Hebrew idea, the medium of God's quickening power.

These islands increase in number as the river, without quickening its current, approaches the falls, whose nearness is indicated only by a veil of spray.

It shared to the full in all the quickening that transformed so many departments of civilization during that epoch, and has been specially influenced by the missionary enterprise, the discoveries of science, the fuller knowledge of the Bible, the awakened zeal for social service.

When she pulled back, his dark chocolate gaze turned sultry, quickening her pulse.

Heart quickening, she crossed to him and accepted his hand.