inspirit
Americanverb (used with object)
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The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops�once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese�have become dangerously demoralized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the grind seems to inspirit young performers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is fitting that Jackson should be the man to inspirit the black electorate.
From Time Magazine Archive
His second novel, Fragments, is set at a lower voltage than The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his first novel about the failure of revolution to inspirit his fellow Ghanaians.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had not lost all ambition, but he had no real friend now to inspirit or stimulate him, so that he often procrastinated, and was seldom successful with anything.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
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