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
Nativity alone, however, is not often sufficient to enkindle the fire of patriotism in our hearts.
From Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga, Toyokichi
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Though already much suspected, she won the hearts of many men and women among the clergy and laity, and enkindled in them by personal conference, correspondence, and her literary work, the ardour of mystical love.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
For in the light of later events, the protest of 1837 showed an enkindled soul that in the goodness of time thrilled the land with a second edition of the Declaration of Independence.
From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron
His impetuous nature was all engrossed by this new passion, and he inspired as ardent an affection in the bosom of his loved companion as that which she had enkindled in his own.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Seven times hope was enkindled in her heart only to be disappointed.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Thus ending, on the shrine he heap'd a spire Of teeming sweets, enkindling sacred fire; Anon he stain'd the thick and spongy sod With wine, in honour of the shepherd-god.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
These men saw with exultation the enkindling of a spirit of liberty in the Iberian Peninsula.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
M.I.E.E., who had the rare gift of enkindling the imagination of his pupils.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir
He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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