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Definition of Rekindled
1. rekindle [v] - See also: rekindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rekindled
Literary usage of Rekindled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"At length the light of science and reason was rekindled ; the talisman was broken ;
the visionary fabric melted into air ; and by a natural, though unjust, ..."
2. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1824)
"... that you would not suffer the fires of Smithfield, which, under your most
happy auspices, have slept so long, to be again rekindled. ..."
3. Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in by John Clark Ridpath (1910)
"... loyalty were rekindled for the moment, but were presently quenched in the wet
blanket of a most mercenary expediency. True, they treated the king with ..."
4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"It was still worse when the Duchess Charlotte, after having rekindled a spark in
the extinct heart of the hero, so gently closed his eyes and followed him ..."
5. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"weariness and over-exertion, he rekindled their spirits. Ho called back the
flying, and restored the battle in many places when it had been given np. ..."
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