quicken
verb (used with object)
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
unquickened
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a word derived from
quicken.
Example Sentences
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She saw gross, ugly movements in her mistress, she saw a clayey, inert, unquickened flesh, that reminded her of the great prehistoric lizards.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Flowers of frost in vases low Stand unquickened and unstirred, And we trace upon the snow Starred footsteps of a bird.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Her Acta Sanctorum may be read from end to end with a dry eye and an unquickened pulse.'
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
For the sorrow of the sea, For the song’s unquickened seeds, For the sleeping of the Shee, My grief.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
Once he was merely an animal, brutal, unquickened; now he is a man—I have not seen his like!
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
