life-giving
Americanadjective
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Origin of life-giving
First recorded in 1555–65
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In “Free” and elsewhere—her public lectures, for instance—she’s made plain her distaste for capitalism, a system that a majority of Albanians today associate with liberty but also with life-giving light after long years of darkness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
But those planets are far away from our life-giving Sun.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
Following their lead, shedding the last of my winter sluggishness and enjoying the life-giving pleasantness of our spring weather this year, I too am energized, moving faster, awake and inspired.
From Salon • May 10, 2025
The weekends were for men “hungry for deep, life-giving relationships.”
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025
They moved closer over the grass and touched the sleepers softly with nose, paw, whiskers, bathing in the life-giving warmth they gave off, but being infinitely careful not to wake them.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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