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
Hence it is not content to find fruit for the intelligence, but penetrates beyond to the will that it may there enkindle love.
From On Union with God by Berthier, P. J.
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
But we bend our knees in prayer before Thee and humbly beseech Thee, remit Thy great wrath enkindled against our sins.
From The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] by Anonymous
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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald
And now as the very lowest depths of despair seemed reached, hope dawned once more, faintly enkindled, but still, hope.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
Indeed, that "indignation" which we have seen enkindled by selfishness, though not easily roused, could not always restrain itself in the hearing of small gossip or busy scandal.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
At forty-seven, that second youth, the Indian summer of the emotions, which lingers like autumnal sunshine in the lives of most men and of a few women, was again enkindling his heart.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
I well remember him, and heard his voice In vigorous prime, beneath the Temple-Arch, His brow enkindling with its holy themes.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
During forty years Giotto responded to every demand, and made himself suffice for every call, worked in nearly every important city of Italy, enkindling everywhere he went the new light of art.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Gentlemen, it is with honest pride and fresh inspiration that we gather once a year to revive our enkindling story.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various
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