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Life-giving

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Necessary for life.

    "We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water."

  2. 2
    Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.
Adjective
  1. 1
    giving or having the power to give life and spirit wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of giving life, of creating beings or fostering their survival. uncountable

    "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."

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