Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of inspirit.
  • adjective Giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.

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  • adjective cheerfully encouraging

Etymologies

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From inspirit +‎ -ing.

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Examples

  • There lingered behind her that peculiar fragrance of modern womanhood, refreshing, inspiriting, which is so entirely different from the merely feminine perfume, however exquisite.

    Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

  • Last night we watched an inspiriting propaganda film made in 1942, The Day Will Come, or some such title, about Norway, Preminger.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009

  • All of soul-inspiriting fled with sleep, and dark melancholy clouded every thought.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • Last weekend saw the continent of Africa's largest demonstration of public concern on the streets of Durban, which was truly inspiriting.

    Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban Jonathan Wootliff 2011

  • Last weekend saw the continent of Africa's largest demonstration of public concern on the streets of Durban, which was truly inspiriting.

    Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban Jonathan Wootliff 2011

  • O Moonwalking dynamo who adept at inspiriting audiences church, you communed with us, as if each concert was Sunday service nursing whip-saved pews of kinsfolk, scars hemmed, in JC's South?

    Homage To The King Of Pop Whinza Kingslee Ndoro 2011

  • Last weekend saw the continent of Africa's largest demonstration of public concern on the streets of Durban, which was truly inspiriting.

    Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban Jonathan Wootliff 2011

  • On the contrary, it obtains the re-inspiriting of the body and all its lowly matter.

    Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation 2010

  • On the contrary, it obtains the re-inspiriting of the body and all its lowly matter.

    Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation 2010

  • We need to feed democracy, nourishing the culture of politics with social imagination, inspiriting people to think before they act, and to act for the greatest good.

    Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy 2010

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