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Enkindle

verb
(past & past part. enkindled; pres. part. enkindling)
1.
Cause to start burning.  Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle.
2.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).  Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise.  "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"





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"Enkindle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wonderful creation of God. It is light, sprung from void darkness; power, waked from inertness and impotence; being created from nothing; and the contrast may well enkindle wonder and delight. It is a rill from the infinite, overflowing goodness; and from the moment when it first gushes up into the light, to that when it mingles with the ocean of Eternity, that Goodness attends it and ministers to it. It is a great ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike


Words linked to "Enkindle" :   sweep over, strike a chord, excite, injure, offend, shake up, overpower, stir up, fire up, anger, shame, bruise, ignite, touch a chord, spite, stimulate, overwhelm, create, discompose, stir, evoke, untune, disconcert, rekindle, prick, wound, heat, discomfit, whelm, infatuate, interest, ask for, make, light, shake, wake, draw, hurt, upset, overcome, invite, overtake


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