quickening

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�There is a vitality, a life force, ... a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

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  1. The act of reviving or animating. Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), II. 99.
  2. The time of pregnancy when the fetus is first felt to be quick.

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  • For an instant a heart-quickening, vision rose up before him; then it vanished. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • How many of earth's departed great, buried out of remembrance, might have lived to-day in the love of the wise and just, had theirs but been that perfect quickening which is the breath of his Spirit upon the heart, the gift that “passeth understanding!” The world's helpers must first become borrowers of God. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • There was out-and-out laughter emanating from many seats Adikor felt his pulse quickening, and his fists clenching—which was the last thing he should be doing, he knew. —  Analog, March 2002
  • �There is a vitality, a life force, ... a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. —  GotPoetry.com News
  • However, abortion to quickening was a right under common law when the 9th Amendment was added, so it does fall under it. —  jillstanek.com
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quickening:   quicken ·  quickened
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  1. from Middle English quykening; verbal noun of quicken, v.
 

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