adj
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Meanings
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adj
giving courage, energy, or hope; encouraging and enlivening
The volunteers found the community's response deeply inspiriting.
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Etymology
The present participial adjective of inspirit, from in- + spirit. Spirit comes through Anglo-French from Latin spiritus, 'breath or spirit'; to inspirit is therefore to put spirit, courage, or energy into someone.