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INSPIRITING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inspiriting mean?
• INSPIRITING (adjective)
The adjective INSPIRITING has 1 sense:
1. cheerfully encouraging
Familiarity information: INSPIRITING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cheerfully encouraging
Synonyms:
heartening; inspiriting
Similar:
encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)
Context examples
With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning; and she particularly led Harriet to talk more of Mr. Martin, and there was evidently no dislike to it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If I looked as gravely at him as Traddles did, he must have found our company by no means inspiriting.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All of soul-inspiriting fled with sleep, and dark melancholy clouded every thought.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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