life-giving

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See also: lifegiving

English

Adjective

life-giving (comparative more life-giving, superlative most life-giving)

  1. Necessary for life.
    • 1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
      The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC.
    We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
  2. Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.

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