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Answer for the clue "An agent that gives or restores life or vigor ", 9 letters:
quickener

Word definitions for quickener in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quickener \Quick"en*er\, n. One who, or that which, quickens.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an agent that gives or restores life or vigor; "the soul is the quickener of the body" [syn: invigorator , enlivener ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who, or that which, quickens.

Usage examples of quickener.

Theologians and, over and over again, by Plato to whom Eros is child of Aphrodite, minister of beautiful children, inciter of human souls towards the supernal beauty or quickener of an already existing impulse thither.

Oh wonderful condescension of Thy pity surrounding us, that Thou, O Lord God, Creator and Quickener of all spirits, deignest to come unto a soul so poor and weak, and to appease its hunger with Thy whole Deity and Humanity.