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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 121 Christe was..y^t lifebringing [L. viuificum, Fr. vivificante] worde of the Father.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S3^v Auarice..Kindled life-deuouring fire.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Eiij^v Life-poysoning pestilence. View more context for this quotation

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. F 2^v Like Promethian life-begetting flame.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 58 Lif-reauing knocks.

1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. ii. iii. §8 The silliest soule among them, might sooner bee partaker of their life-working sense.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 10 Each halfe houre a hell of infernall paine, and betweene each torment, a long distance of life-quelling time.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N7^v Stay but till my Julia close Her life-begetting eye.

1776 H. H. Brackenridge Battle of Bunkers-Hill v. iv. 28 With these rude Britons, wage life-scorning war, 'Till they admit it, and like hell fall off.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxiii. 49 Life-abhorring gloom.

1868 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions 187 Life-creating Paraclete.

1886 H. H. Henson Jrnl. 25 May in Retrospect (1942) I. i. 13 I am convinced that this easy-going, popular, life-enjoying Christianity is a bald and impudent falsehood.

1928 P. Grainger Let. 23 Apr. in All-round Man (1994) 94 I live only waiting for such life-oertopping moments, in which the all-world ((universe)) [sic] seems to suddenly do one's bidding so that one feels like god.

1960 Encounter Sept. 72/1 Gerda is one of those sex-free affairs between tormented men and life-accepting women.

2006 Men's Health Aug. 97/1 It's life-shaking moments, such as a..George W Bush press conference, that are the most dangerous to hair.