enkindle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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to set on fire; kindle
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to excite to activity or ardour; arouse
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His father gave him lessons about it but then stopped: “He could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Minardi fought to enkindle the Catholic faith in youth — and he never gave up for the 70 years he was Ozzano’s parish priest, until coronavirus killed him at 94.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2020
Friendly and exuberant “Let your wisdom enkindle others” “Looking forward for an everlasting scientific relationship!”
From Nature ● Dec. 13, 2016
That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
No sooner had this occurred to my mind than I was impressed with the conviction that you were to revisit this mundane sphere, and that I was the chosen instrument to enkindle the vital spark.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
It must not be inferred that we had lost the zeal enkindled during the dark hours in Atlanta.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
Wild April, enkindled to laughter and storm by the kiss of the wildest of winds that blow, Calls loud on his brother for witness; his hands that were laden with blossom are sprinkled with snow.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
He had enkindled a fire, but could not quench the flame.
From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding
His impetuous nature was all engrossed by this new passion, and he inspired as ardent an affection in the bosom of his loved companion as that which she had enkindled in his own.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
All the night long in trooping squares The sentry stars go by, The silent and unwearying hosts That bear man company, And with their pure enkindling fires Keep vigils lone and high.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.
From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by A. P. Mukerji
Now, as then, there was a curious blending of principle and of personal resentment, but the issue presented was less enkindling than the sentiment of resistance to the aggressions of slavery.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
Thus ending, on the shrine he heap'd a spire Of teeming sweets, enkindling sacred fire; Anon he stain'd the thick and spongy sod With wine, in honour of the shepherd-god.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
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