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Definition of Life-giving
1. Adjective. Giving or having the power to give life and spirit. "The vitalizing rays of the warming sun"
Definition of Life-giving
1. Adjective. Describing that necessary for life. ¹
2. Adjective. Describing that which creates or engenders life, a source of life. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life-giving
Literary usage of Life-giving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... to the size and shape of real life ; giving proportion, order and arrangement
to the widest scheme of action, and to the most extended duration of time. ..."
2. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"No; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still,—fruitful,
life-giving." This is just a specimen of that sort of application of ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"How strongly this idea of the sacred and life-giving nature Church, was not
without preparation for its reception as a familiar idea to the classical mind. ..."
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