inspiriting

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   giving courage, energy, or hope; encouraging and enlivening

   The volunteers found the community's response deeply inspiriting.

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.

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