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life-giving

adj

Definitions

  1. Necessary for life.

    • We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
    • The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC.
    • Her days were taken up with the life-giving, hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages to feed, clothe and nurture her household.

  2. Creating or engendering life

    Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.

  3. The act of giving life, of creating beings or fostering their survival.

    • The systematic, violent overthrow of an ethos of lifegiving by one that placed higher value on the taking of life culminated in the destruction of the Minoan civilization of Crete some four millenia ^([sic]) later.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at life-giving. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at life-giving. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at life-giving

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA