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Quickening   /kwˈɪkənɪŋ/   Listen
Quickening

noun
1.
The process of showing signs of life.
2.
The stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus.
3.
The act of accelerating; increasing the speed.  Synonyms: acceleration, speedup.  Antonym: deceleration.


Quicken

verb
(past & past part. quickened; pres. part. quickening)
1.
Move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up.  Antonym: decelerate.
2.
Make keen or more acute.  Synonym: whet.
3.
Give life or energy to.  Synonym: invigorate.
4.
Show signs of life.
5.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"



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"Quickening" Quotes from Famous Books



... Then quickening their steps they passed the three men, but turned back immediately, and D'Artagnan walked straight up to the butcher and touching him on the chest with the tip of ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... attended to what was due to others, and to her own character in their opinion. Her conviction of being right, however, was not enough to restore her composure; till she had spoken to Miss Tilney she could not be at ease; and quickening her pace when she got clear of the Crescent, she almost ran over the remaining ground till she gained the top of Milsom Street. So rapid had been her movements that in spite of the Tilneys' advantage in the outset, they were but just turning into their lodgings ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... the effort was made at Presburg to resist all claims but those of one race. The same quickening breath which had stirred the Magyar nation to new life had also passed over the branches of the Slavic family within the Austrian dominions far and near. In Bohemia a revival of interest in the Czech language and literature, which began about 1820, had in the following ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... his pink wreaths and his white robe, and watched the quickening pinkiness of the East. And slowly the great circle of the temple filled with white-robed folk, all carrying in their hands the faint pinkiness of the flowers which we nowadays ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... glow? Say, what retards, amidst the summer's blaze, Th' autumnal bulb, till pale, declining days? The GOD OF SEASONS; whose pervading power Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower: He bids each flower His quickening word obey, Or to each lingering ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White


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