Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to animate or excite feeling.
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- adverb in an
animating manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is not to say that he goes unread; but there is a vast gulf fixed between the author whom we read with pleasure and even delight, and that other to whom we turn at all moments for inspiration and encouragement, and whose words and ideas spring up incessantly and animatingly within us, unbidden, whether we turn to him or no.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron John Morley 1880
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As we passed Bent's Fort the American flag was raised, in compliment to our troops, and, like our own, streamed most animatingly in the gale that swept from the desert, while the tops of the houses were crowded with Mexican girls and Indian squaws, intently beholding the American army.
The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868
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