vivify
verb (used with object)
to give life to; animate; quicken.
vivification
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a word derived from
vivify.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Marcus Dods
The trouvères did not trouble themselves to work out any complete character among the many whom they grouped round this great personage; but they left none without touches of vivification and verisimilitude.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
It was thus received in the early cosmogonies, in all of which the vivification of the Mundane Egg constituted the act of creation; from it sprang the world resplendent in glory and teeming with life.
From Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World by Anonymous
The process of vivification is carried out as follows.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
