inspired
being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,978 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,489 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods also: divine, elysian her pies were simply divinethe divine Shakespeare
inspired in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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In certain passages he reaches, very simply, the heights of inspired vision.
Notes on Life & Letters · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 2
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The Seas have inspired it, and Truth— Truth, varying from sameness never.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Her Ladyship was an old woman who indulged and inspired herself with an Epicurean wisdom.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The hope of being at last rid of that man inspired Mme. Favoral with something like courage.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The men who came out of that burial spoke afterward of McLean as of an inspired being.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1