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Bracing vs Quickening - What's the difference?

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Bracing is a related term of quickening.


As verbs the difference between bracing and quickening

is that bracing is while quickening is .

As nouns the difference between bracing and quickening

is that bracing is a brace while quickening is an increase of speed.

As an adjective bracing

is invigorating or stimulating.

bracing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Invigorating or stimulating.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
  • Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia bracing)
  • a brace
  • (US) a form of the military attention stance
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    quickening

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An increase of speed.
  • * 1861 , United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics (page 124)
  • If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.
  • The action of bringing someone or something to life.
  • The first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
  • Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct percptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself.