Quicken vs Inspire - What's the difference?
quicken | inspire | Synonyms |
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) XVII:
*:Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall
*1610 , , act 3
*:The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
(lb) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
*1910 , ‘(Saki)’, "The Lost Sanjak", Reginald in Russia :
*:The Chaplain's interest in the story visibly quickened .
(lb) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
*2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, (London Review of Books) , 35.IV:
*:Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened .
(lb) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p.47:
*:That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
(lb) To become faster.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
(lb) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
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*1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p, 104:
*:Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
* Bible, Wisdom xv. 11
* Shakespeare
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To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
* Dryden
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
* Harvey
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
(archaic) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
* Alexander Pope
To spread rumour indirectly.
Quicken is a synonym of inspire.
As verbs the difference between quicken and inspire
is that quicken is while inspire is .As a noun quicken
is .quicken
English
Etymology 1
From . Compare Swedish kvickna, Danish kvikne.Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* quickbeam English ergative verbsinspire
English
Verb
(inspir)- He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
- Dawning day new comfort hath inspired .
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- Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
- Erato, thy poet's mind inspire , / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
- forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty
- Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, / The breathing instruments inspire .