📖 Definitions of "Quickening"
verb
- 1
To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
- 2
To come back to life, receive life.
- 3
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
- 4
Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
noun
- 1
An increase of speed.
- 2
The action of bringing someone or something to life.
- 3
The first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
- 4
Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
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