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Example sentences for "vivify"

Lexicographically close words:
vividly; vividness; vivification; vivified; vivifies; vivifying; vivimus; vivipara; viviparous; vivir
  1. The world, its laws and phenomena, form for him one universal and persistent myth, so far as he feels himself constrained to vivify and transform them into subjects actuated by will.

  2. In this way man does not, like animals, merely vivify the special oak or chestnut tree presented to him in a concrete form at a given moment, but he vivifies in the same way the psychical type of trees, of flowers, etc.

  3. The more sure a man is that God has put away the iniquity of his sin, the more should he remember it; for the remembrance will vivify gratitude and bind close to Him without whom there can be no steadfastness of spirit nor purity of life.

  4. The clearest recognition of His requirements may coexist with resistance to them, and needs the impulse of loving contemplation of God's unnumbered wonders to vivify it into glad service.

  5. Neither hostility, indelicacy, nor profanity can create the ludicrous, but where they do not disgust they vivify and make it more effective.

  6. The inquiry in the present chapter is not as to what creates the ludicrous, but as to what tends to vivify or obscure it.

  7. To vivify cold dramatic incidents is the province of playlet characters.

  8. Yet genius, however small its sphere, if conversant with the conditions of the human heart, may vivify with indestructible life some happy delineations, that shall continue to be held dear by successive sorrowers in this vale of tears.

  9. This black cube is the Holy Ka'bah, the veritable heart of Islam, and like so many veins bringing blood to the heart to vivify the body, all the prayers of Islam flow towards this Temple to vivify souls.

  10. As religious duties are all moral, as obligations to God, and all moral duties are religious, as due to Him, the Christian consciousness of God must re-inforce and vivify with new efficiency the whole twofold moral endeavor.

  11. It is not to be denied that the writers of the Old Testament employ anthropomorphic language to vivify the justice and goodness of the Eternal.

  12. It cannot penetrate or vivify the inmost life of ordinary humanity.

  13. The picture of nature thus drawn, notwithstanding the want of distinctness of some of its outlines, will not be the less able to enrich the intellect, enlarge the sphere of ideas, and nourish and vivify the imagination.

  14. The writer who starts with some abstract knowledge of fiction technique, and seeks to vivify rules of construction into a definite story, will accomplish very little.

  15. But there is also the thematic story, written to vivify an abstract proposition or to point a moral.

  16. Then describe the land through figures of speech which will vivify its outward appearance or its emotional significance to the owner.

  17. In narration you must vivify emotional torpor; but lest in your efforts to inveigle boredom you yourself should induce it, you must have a wary eye for signals of distress.

  18. To me, however, the lesson served merely to vivify the dead deposits of the Oolitic system, as represented by the Lias of Cromarty and Ross.

  19. Occasionally I was enabled to vivify in this way even the ancient deposits of the Lias, with their vast abundance of cephalopodous mollusca--belemnites, ammonites, and nautili.

  20. It is extremely probable that the funeral sacrifice of men and animals in many cases involves an intention to vivify the spirits of the deceased with the warm, red sap of life.

  21. The funeral sacrifice of men and animals also seems to involve an intention to vivify the spirits of the deceased with blood, p.

  22. Human beings are sacrificed not only to gods, but to dead men, in order to serve them as companions or servants, or to vivify their spirits, or to gratify their craving for revenge.

  23. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the center, and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.

  24. He had a capacity to entertain and vivify these volumes of thought.

  25. Allow an overflowing aroma of life to vivify the horny skin under the heel, and from this there will be a spilling which will vivify the boot in wear.

  26. The given world seems insufficient; impossible things have to be imagined, both to extend its limits and to fill in and vivify its texture.

  27. It is by these upheavals and convulsions of the solar atmosphere that the light and heat are maintained which illumine and vivify the worlds that gravitate round the Sun.

  28. With prodigal liberality he dispenses his vast stores of light and heat, which illumine and vivify the worlds circling around him, and upon the constant supply of which all animated beings depend for their existence.

  29. As the years accumulate the emotions that vivify the lowest grades of astral matter are not so much in evidence and the matter in which they are expressed loses its vitality.

  30. The teachings of His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh like unto the rays of the sun illumined the East as well as the West, vivify the dead and unite the various religions.

  31. My hope therefore is that thou mayest be the cause of the shining of the Divine Teachings in Japan, that thou mayest vivify the dead.

  32. I hope that thou mayest be the cause of their awakening and may vivify them.

  33. Conditions that tended to vivify the belief during Elizabethan era.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vivify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animate; brace; cheer; conceive; energize; enliven; exhilarate; fire; fortify; freshen; gladden; inspire; inspirit; invigorate; liven; quicken; raise; refresh; regale; renew; revive; rouse; stimulate; vitalize; vivid; vivify