life-giving

See also: lifegiving

English

Adjective

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

1. Necessary for life.

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

   • 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.

2. Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.

Translations

necessary for life

• Bulgarian: животворен (bg) (životvoren)
• Greek:

  Ancient: βιόδωρος (biódōros)

• Latin: vitālis
• Macedonian: живо́творен (živótvoren)
• Maori: whakamanapou
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livgivende

• Polish: życiodajny

Noun

life-giving (uncountable)

1. The act of giving life, of creating beings or fostering their survival.
   • 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:

     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.

Related terms

• life-giver