quickening

IPA: kwˈɪkʌnɪŋ

An increase of speed.
The action of bringing someone or something to life.
The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).

Examples of "quickening" in Sentences

THERE is a certain quickening of everything in these fall days,
These first sensations, referred to as quickening, often feel like little fluttery movements or gas.
God's power and grace are magnified in quickening what to the eye of flesh seems dead and hopeless (Ro 4: 17,
The notion of "quickening" -- when the woman could first sense movement in her womb -- was sometimes used as a dividing line between ethical and unethical abortion.
Down through the sere leaves comes the first chestnut; others follow in quickening commotion, beginning their long pilgrimage to perfection; a hundred years hence they will stand in bridal white against the blue.
Though Israel be but a remnant amidst many nations after her restoration, yet she shall exercise the same blessed influence in quickening them spiritually that the small imperceptible dew exercises in refreshing the grass (De 32: 2;
Your first example hearkens back to the idea of quickening — the point at which a woman “feels” a child inside — hardly at the moment of fertilziation, indeed, often not until week 20 or even later depending on how the placenta is situated.
Death, so far from preventing quickening, is the necessary prelude and prognostication of it, just as the seed "is not quickened" into a new sprout with increased produce, "except it die" (except a dissolution of its previous organization takes place).