animating

comparative more animating · superlative most animating

1. Enlivening.

   The sport is excellent and most animating.

   1865, William Nelson Hutchinson, Dog breaking: the most expeditious, certain and easy method, page 46

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   He was a beloved brother indeed to me, and his letters have been very animating and strengthening to me in my great solitude.

   1862, Lydia Ann Barclay, A Selection from the Letters of Lydia Ann Barclay, page 432

   The irregular and undisciplined wars which it was her business to describe were naturally far more prolific of extraordinary incidents, unexpected turns of fortune, and striking displays of individual talent, and vice and virtue, than the more solemn movements of national hostility, where everything is in a great measure provided and foreseen, and where the inflexible subordination of rank, and the severe exactions of a limited duty, not only take away the inducement, but the opportunity, for those exaltations of personal feeling and adventure which produce the most lively interest, and lead to the most animating results.

   2023, The Most Influential Women in History

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of animate