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US
/ˈɫaɪfˌɡɪvɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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giving or having the power to give life and spirit
returning the life-giving humus to the land
life-giving love and praise
the vitalizing rays of the warming sun
life-giving love and praise
How To Use life-giving In A Sentence
- Among those setting the lobsters free was Vikrant Bhasin, a chef from Cambridge, Massachusetts who called the life-giving experience "beautiful. Reuters: Press Release
- Thus Carey sought to turn to Christ the twelve millions of Hindoos who, from Western India above and below the great coast-range known as the Sahyadri or "delectable" mountains, had nearly wrested the whole peninsula from the Mohammedans, and had almost anticipated the life-giving rule of the British, first at Panipat and then as Assye. Life of William Carey
- And where I am going there are no curious fish to create life-giving ripples against vastness. Against the V
- The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body.
- How can such preaching be as tangible as the taste of bread in our mouths, as life-giving as water on our foreheads?
- It doesn't seem to be alcohol that is the important factor, but the life-giving nutrients buried within the grapes that make wine.
- Now Rio was sliding through the hard layers that had protected the life-giving core of her. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
- Loam and caustic might be thought of as the conditions of existence: the one an especially fertile soil, life-giving; the other a burning substance that destroys living tissue.
- The intended spirit of the ancient festival is one of gentleness and thankfulness, paying respect to elders and showing appreciation for the gift of life-giving water.
- Selfhood, life and mere existence are meaningless if not suffused with this life-giving force.