enkindling
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He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
These men saw with exultation the enkindling of a spirit of liberty in the Iberian Peninsula.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
He excelled all men whom I have ever known in the teaching profession for enkindling among his pupils an ardent zeal in their literary pursuits.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
But faith, after all, is but the hand that takes, whilst love is the fellowship of kindred hearts that flash each on the other the enkindling gleam.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
We then feel how different is our own lonely prayer from the united voice of many hearts; each cheering, strengthening, enkindling the other.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
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