life-giving
adjective
imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing.
life-giver
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a word derived from
life-giving.
Example Sentences
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The Rainbow, then, is the story of those origins; of woman as the eternal life-giver who, through time and change, is finally driven to give birth to herself.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2011
But your old seatmate Charlie O. is not the pink-cheeked life-giver he pretends to be.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the life-giver, but undiluted would be the life-destroyer; and the three-fifths of nitrogen act as its diluent.
From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell
They repeated it, and wrote it down as a recipe, "Love is a life-giver."
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Evidently, then, such operations should not be performed, since there is risked so grave an interference with the desires of the life-giver.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
