"quickening" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics, page 124:",
          "text": "If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.",
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        "An increase of speed."
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        "The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs."
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