Animating
['ænimeitiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Animate
(a.) Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Cheering, inspiring, enlivening, encouraging, spirit-stirring, heart-stirring.
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Examples
- It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It inspired little more than an animating curiosity. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Each has become specialized not merely in its appliances and its demands upon time, but in its aim and animating spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The principle of a physician's conduct is its animating aim and spirit--the care for the diseased. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And when the animating motive is desire for private profit or personal power, this limitation is inevitable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Maria, wanting Henry Crawford's animating support, thought the subject better avoided. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His situation was new and animating. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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