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Meanings of enkindle in English

Portuguese
provocar
Catalan
moure
Spanish
despertar

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

provocar
Portuguese
acender
Catalan
abrandar

Cause to start burning.

acender
Usage of enkindle in English
1
Thus may I enkindle the light of guidance in the hearts of Thy servants.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
2
Undoubtedly, thou must enkindle the lights of the Kingdom therein.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
3
It was a sky the sun did not illuminate or enkindle, as is usual at sunsets.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
4
Absence- amomentaryseparation-wasenough to enkindle these flames.
Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
5
That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.
The road
6
Their office is to illumine and enkindle-
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
7
As soon as this primitive enthusiasm seemed to slacken in the least, reformers appeared to enkindle it again.
The Irish Race in the Past and the Present
8
True it is that no blowing can enkindle dead coals, and make a flame where was no spark.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 / A Magaz...
9
May God grant, that the Love of Liberty & a Zeal to support it may enkindle in every town.
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2
10
Nay, but we shut our eyes, and would not behold the light which thou didst enkindle more brightly for us.
Barlaam and Ioasaph
11
This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
12
Suddenly a bright flash leaped up from the fragments the wicked man sought to enkindle, and revealed his garb and features.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
13
If "nobleness enkindleth nobleness," so does enthusiasm beget enthusiasm, and so do wit and talent enkindle wit and talent.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
14
In order still further to enkindle my ardour, Our Divine Master soon proved to me how pleasing to him was my desire.
The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of...
15
Illumine their eyes by the light of love, and enkindle their hearts by the rays streaming from the heaven of the Supreme Concourse.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace
16
He sought to enkindle in the other Greeks some portion of the ardour and energy which he had succeeded in breathing into the Athenians.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Enkindle through the time