quickening in English

verb

1

make or become faster or quicker.

she quickened her pace, desperate to escape

synonyms: speed up, accelerate, step up, hasten, hurry (up)

2

spring to life; become animated.

her interest quickened

synonyms: stimulate, excite, arouse, rouse, stir up, activate, galvanize, whet, inspire, kindle, invigorate, revive, revitalize

noun

acceleration, speedup

verb

speed up, stimulate, whet, recreate, invigorate
speed up, accelerate, step up, hasten, hurry (up)
stimulate, excite, arouse, rouse, stir up, activate, galvanize, whet, inspire, kindle, invigorate, revive, revitalize
speed up, accelerate, speed
whet
recreate, renovate, revivify, animate, vivify, revive, reanimate, repair
invigorate

Use "quickening" in a sentence

1. Rousing; quickening: an Awakening interest.

2. Acceleratory: Accelerating or tending to accelerate; quickening motion.

3. 20 Pity is a lever for quickening love.

4. Pamela Basker, Casting Director: Highlander II: The Quickening

5. 2 Pity is a level for quickening love. 

6. Scientists point to the international pet trade, longline fishing operations, and loss of suitable habitats to explain the quickening pace at which these species are disappearing.

7. Affret stands for Affrettando (music; hurrying or quickening) This definition appears rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: MLA style: "Affret." Acronym Finder

8. In Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was considered allowable until quickening, that is, when the mother would feel life in the womb.

9. She has Coedited three books on India and Indian foreign policy: Power Realignments in Asia, India Briefing: Takeoff at Last?, and India Briefing: Quickening the Pace of Change

10. And a voice came out] This is the Lamb’s voice, his all quickening voice, which shall rouse and raise the dead and dedolent Jews; powerfully pulling the veil from their hard hearts, which yet were somewhat moved and mollified by the former Alleluiahs, so that now all the servants of God, small and great, Jew and Gentile, shall praise him with