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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspirit.

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Examples

  • Delighting in the tumult and in the struggles of life, he was equally a stranger to pity and to fear; his very courage was a sort of animal ferocity; not the noble impulse of a principle, such as inspirits the mind against the oppressor, in the cause of the oppressed; but a constitutional hardiness of nerve, that cannot feel, and that, therefore, cannot fear.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • a principle, such as inspirits the mind against the oppressor, in the cause of the oppressed; but a constitutional hardiness of nerve, that cannot feel, and that, therefore, cannot fear.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793

  • It got me thinking: Are today's successful women blind to gender when it comes to what inspirits them in business?

    Patricia Handschiegel: The New Power Girls: Women Who Ignore Gender in Business 2009

  • Besides, wine inspirits some men, and raises a confidence and assurance in them, but not such as is haughty and odious, but pleasing and agreeable.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Besides, wine inspirits some men, and raises a confidence and assurance in them, but not such as is haughty and odious, but pleasing and agreeable.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And Reagan sort of inspirits the nation, gives it a feeling that it has shared values and a better future.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004 2004

  • Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • But if you look at a real woman's real life -- and increasingly in these 20 years of feminist biography and women's studies, we are looking at real lives -- you see that what inspirits women is very much what inspirits men.

    Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 1993

  • The story of the young Prudence Crandall's stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way.

    Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

  • On both sides of the Loire, however, there was that appearance of plenty and of happiness, of the bounty of Nature and of the cheerful labour of man, which inspirits the heart of the beholder.

    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

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