Definition of "life-giver" []

• A river of southwest Illinois flowing about 217 km (135 mi) to the Mississippi River north-northwest of Cairo.

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• "Easily irritated and quickly frustrated, LaJoy considers himself "a life-giver," but he's a bully who antagonizes the Park Service at public meetings, pokes legal sticks into its restoration plans and resorts to acts of sabotage that spin out of control like a PETA version of "Survivor.""
• "The true essence of Villa d'Este is liquid: it is a celebration of water, life-giver of Roman civilization."
• "The Rainbow, then, is the story of those origins; of woman as the eternal life-giver who, through time and change, is finally driven to give birth to herself."