life-giving

[ lahyf-giv-ing ]

adjective

1. imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing:

   life-giving love and praise.

Other Words From

• life-giver noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of life-giving¹

First recorded in 1555–65

Example Sentences

You are hooked on something life-giving instead of destructive.

From The Daily Beast

Ruled by the life-giving Sun, their potential for creativity is total.

From The Daily Beast

That life-giving source is the enzyme telomerase, which can actually lengthen telomeres.

From The Daily Beast

In her trembling hands she bore a big lily leaf containing two or three ounces of life-giving water.

From Project Gutenberg

A wave of happiness and well-being went through me, as though my lungs had filled with the first life-giving breath of air.

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Of the man who has the form of godliness, but who has never felt its regenerating and life-giving power.

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It was as if the noisome prison-house of his soul were flung open once and forever to the blessed life-giving air.

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Once the sun with its life-giving heat has set, one begins to see the cold and distant stars.

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