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LIFE-GIVING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life-giving mean?
• LIFE-GIVING (adjective)
The adjective LIFE-GIVING has 1 sense:
1. giving or having the power to give life and spirit
Familiarity information: LIFE-GIVING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving or having the power to give life and spirit
Synonyms:
life-giving; vitalizing
Context example:
the vitalizing rays of the warming sun
Similar:
invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)
Context examples
She never stirred, but slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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