The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enkindle \En*kin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enkindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enkindling.]
To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
--Shak.-
To excite; to rouse into action; to incite.
To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist.
--Talfourd.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of enkindle English)
Usage examples of "enkindling".
If we seek the enkindling fire and the moral elevation of high principle and profound conviction and resolute courage, we find a never-ceasing inspiration in the unfaltering earnestness and imperishable deeds of the Pilgrim Fathers.
And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray.
And ever the greater merit shall he have who restrains the wicked enkindlings of the ordure of this sin.