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But those who hope it signals a vivification of the Act might want to temper their optimism.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2022

No cloud has a silver lining, and every rain-storm is sure to work injury to the crops rather than bring the needful moisture for their vivification.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton

It can be only my higher life, unfolding itself in her, before which my present life disappears; and that which mortals call death is the visible appearing of a second vivification.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

First, as you know, comes the long, swaying, scholastic, somewhat sophisticated argument about the evidence of resurrection; about the corn, 'that which thou sowest,' the vivification, the change in vivification, and the rest.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

In the lower animal-creation many analogous capacities are found, which depend for their vivification on some external agency over which they have no control.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus