inspiriting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]inspiriting
- present participle and gerund of inspirit
Adjective
[edit]inspiriting (comparative more inspiriting, superlative most inspiriting)
- Giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 210:
- I would willingly therefore write to you, if I might; the rather as it would be more inspiriting to have some end in view in what I write; some friend to please; besides merely seeking to gratify my passion for scribbling.
- 1861, John Stuart Mill, chapter 2, in Utilitarianism[1]:
- All honour to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renunciation they contribute worthily to increase the amount of happiness in the world; but he who does it, or professes to do it, for any other purpose, is no more deserving of admiration than the ascetic mounted on his pillar. He may be an inspiriting proof of what men can do, but assuredly not an example of what they should.
- 1898, Kenneth Grahame, “Mutabile Semper”, in Dream Days[2]:
- In the glorious reaction of the sunshine after the downpour, with its moist warm smells, bespanglement of greenery, and inspiriting touch of rain-washed air, the parks and palaces of the imagination glowed with a livelier iris, and their blurred beauties shone out again with fresh blush and palpitation.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
- She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 220:
- These small and indeed insignificant things only began to become significant for me after the whole Vienna period which was at the same time inspiriting and depressing.