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• Taoism puts a significant emphasis on noninterference, imbuing the decision not to act with moral quality.2022 Jan-Mar, Liam C. Butchart, “Taoism, bioethics, and the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Tzu Chi Medical Journal, volume 34, number 1, →DOI…. From the entry Taoism
• Salvant imbued it with Wilsonian hyperclarity, suavely allowing the tune to indict itself.2015 August 26, Nate Chinen, “Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant Wields Her Power, Drawing From Her Album ‘For One to Love’”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperclarity
• These internal drives were called "entelechies," and Aristotleians held that the entire universe is imbued with entelechies.2014, Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson, Javier Cumpa, editors, Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, Berlin: Walter…. From the entry entelechy
• On the one hand, it was certainly imbued with the desire for change (rampant neophilia).2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge…. From the entry neophilia
• But Vernon’s arrangements do an impeccable job of imbuing his older material with that same vibeyness.2011 September 22, Jeff Miller, “Bon Iver at the Gibson Amphitheater: Concert Review”, in The Hollywood Reporter. From the entry vibeyness
• A Christian, he taught, is called to action; action imbued with Christ’s largeheartedness for all who suffer.2009 August 9, “The Battle Over a Baby”, in New York Times. From the entry largeheartedness
• Baker’s ostentatious laid-backness subversive, to imbue it with so much bad-boy allure.2007 June 3, Terrence Rafferty, “A Jazzman So Cool You Want Him Frozen at His Peak”, in New York Times. From the entry glamorizer
• I was imbued with an amorphous sense of capability — but that word makes little sense to me.2013, Doc Togden, an odd boy, page 105. From the entry apertive
• Burns' language is imbued with a momentum of its own that induces laughter and exhilaration – an effect unstaled by familiarity.2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology. From the entry unstaled
• Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy.1999, Dwain Campbell, Tales from the Frozen Ocean, page 8. From the entry God's green earth
• The Feng and Shan were probably the state rituals in premodern China imbued with the most momentous religious and political symbolism.[1994, Chen Jo-shui, “Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T’ang China”, in Frederick P. Brandauer, Chün-chieh Huang, editors…. From the entry Mount Tai
• The white-collar worker and open-collar professional have been imbued from earliest schooling with an individualist, anti-labor organizational ethic.1990, Larry A. Hickman, Technology as a Human Affair, McGraw-Hill, page 444. From the entry open-collar
• A transcendentalist imbued with a strong spirit of otherworldliness, he may perhaps be best summed up in Emerson's words.1909, Theodore Stanton, A Manual of American Literature, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 330. From the entry otherworldliness
• If Covid-19 eventually imbues human beings with some humility, it’s possible that we will, after all, be receptive to the lessons of this lethal pandemic.2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry exceptionalism
• Imbued with disintegration magic as they were, her wings managed to block the barrage of dragonbreath, but now Kaori was pinned in place.2020, Ryo Shirakome, translated by Ningen, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, volume 11, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry dragonbreath
• History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.2012, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class, page 257. From the entry pipeline
• His goal is to imbue his waterfront enclave with enough complexity to provide a distilled version of the great metropolis within this moated sanctuary.2008 March 3, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai”, in New York Times. From the entry moated
• In the end, nothing that dramatic happened, but after our night together, everything became imbued with what I now see as a certain fatedness.2007 April 22, Yew Leong Lee, “Cold Currency”, in New York Times. From the entry fatedness
• He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance.2007 September 2, Nate Chinen, “That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single”, in New York Times. From the entry noncloying
• As soon as they met a guy who was Good Enough, they pushed a little button somewhere and were imbued with InstaLove.2007 March 23, John Blesso, “Raw Oysters and Steak Tartare”, in Sharehouse Confidential: Sex, Drugs and the Single Life Inside an…. From the entry instalove
• Like a lacquered bento box, the Zenlike hotel offers an array of delights imbued with natural color and texture, all contained in interlocking enclosures.2002 September, William Weathersby, Jr., “At the W Hotel in Times Square, Designer Yabu Pushelberg Creates Spare, Richly Textured…. From the entry bento box
• Hope in liberation can imbue the singular transgressive body-performativity as well as the performative uses of fallibilist pragmatic presuppositions of human communication action.1998, Martin J[oseph] Beck Matuštík, “Hope and Refusal”, in Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order (SUNY Series in…. From the entry refusenik
• The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders. From the entry antitea
• Rather curiously, it is Hœnir who is said to have imbued the lifeless wood with óðr ('frenzy', 'passion'), rather than Odin, who derives his own name from the quality.2022, Andrew Orchard, Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend, Hachette, unnumbered page. From the entry Hœnir
• Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.2020, David Bowe, Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante, page 144. From the entry purgatorial
• We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic. From the entry ipso facto
• The whole history of German and indeed European culture, including Croce, Windelband, Bergson, and the analytic philosophers, is seen as imbued with the immanent purpose of ensuring Hitler's triumph..1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry Bergson

Meaning of imbue

1. verb To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
2. verb To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
3. verb In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

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How do you use imbue in a sentence?

Imbue is used as a verb. For example: “The shirt was imbued with his scent.”

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“The shirt was imbued with his scent.”

What does imbue mean?

Imbue means to instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.