Rousing
['raʊzɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; 'tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation' .
(adj.) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; 'a rousing sermon'; 'stirring events such as wars and rescues' .
Checked by Freda--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse
(a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
(a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
Editor: Priscilla
Examples
- If we get through this business without rousing his suspicions, I shall be better informed, no doubt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening's entertainment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My experience was very limited; I was not at all prepared for his rousing himself out of this emotion to a new sense of injury. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I responded, rousing myself quickly, I was not affected at all--not a whit. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rousing her friend, Mrs. Sanders alighted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And then rousing herself, she said, 'He is a tall, broad-shouldered man, about--how old, papa? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They were rousing each other to a fine passion of opposition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then he thought how he could best introduce his machine with least risk of rousing the popular fury. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- How I pity those whom mental pain stuns instead of rousing! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I only want a little rousing; that's all. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yes, blending instruction with pleasure, said Crispin, rousing himself out of his revery and walking over to the piano. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Some good rousing tunes firSt. Rosamond played admirably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yes,' said the Jew, as suddenly rousing himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then, rousing, 'And what is it you don't want? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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