Inspiriting vs Inspiritingly - What's the difference?
inspiriting | inspiritingly |
Giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 220:
In an inspiriting manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Dorothy Canfield, title=Hillsboro People, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly , his weather-beaten face very grave. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Alexandre Dumas, title=The Vicomte de Bragelonne, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The birds sung less inspiritingly than usual amid the boughs, which remained as motionless as death. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Henry Sydnor Harrison, title=V. V.'s Eyes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then the absurdity of her--Miss Heth's--feeling constraint before this Mr.--no, Dr.--Vivian, this friend of the Cooneys and malicious attacker of the Cooneys' relatives' characters, rushed over the girl inspiritingly . }}
As a verb inspiriting
is .As an adjective inspiriting
is giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.As an adverb inspiritingly is
in an inspiriting manner.inspiriting
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(en adjective)- 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.
inspiritingly
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Adverb
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