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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It was good for the man of unquickened heart to listen even to their folly.
From The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
But while his thoughts were on the affair his fingers made him droll small images of ten of the image-makers, which he set aside unquickened.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
She was extraordinarily lacking in conceit, and she could not realize, since her sympathy was unquickened by a responsive affection, that a love of short growth could mean much to its possessor.
From A Tar-Heel Baron by Edward Stratton Holloway
Had she been letting memories kindle fires in her which all his faithful love had left unquickened?
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
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
