quicken
verb (used with object)
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
quickener
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a word derived from
quicken.
Example Sentences
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It was a quickener to him, that his road lay for some distance along the Linden-city causeway.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Savitri, the quickener, raises all things from sleep in the morning with his long arms of gold, and covers them with sleep in the evening.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
And truly Mr. Chesterton is invaluable as a quickener and stimulator of the minds of his readers.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
And so he had come finally to that high cold table-land where the sun of Love shines rather as the white luminary of another world than the red quickener of this.
From The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen
Now jealousy, as Enid knew well, is a potent quickener of feeling between a man and a woman.
From What Timmy Did by Marie Belloc Lowndes
