lifing

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"Lifing" is the effort to derive the utmost from every day; "Who are you screaming with?" a glancing allusion to primal therapy, is now a query about any psychological aid the subject is seeking.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the papacy that made the first move to establish such relations: in 1019 Archbishop Lifing brought a message back from Rome replete with good advice which seems to have nattered the young Dane.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

Make me a fellow worker with thee, Christ; Nought else befits a God-born energy; Of all that's lovely, only lives the highest, Lifing the rest that it shall never die.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George

It was carried to England by Bishop Lifing of Crediton.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

It may have been this friendship that secured to Lifing the abbacy of Tavistock, perhaps in 1024, in which year he witnessed charters for the first time as abbot.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus