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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Ah, sweet delight, the quickener of my soul!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
It is a quickener of the intellect, a purifier of the affections, and an instrument of heightening our spiritual aspirations.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
But this partiality in a biographer, though to be allowed and even commended as a quickener of insight, should not be strong enough to warp his mind from its judicial level.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
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
