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ANIMATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving spirit and vivacity
Synonyms:
animating; enlivening
Classified under:
Similar:
invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb animate
Context examples:
But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery, You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
