inspiring

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inspire/ɪnˈspʌɪə(r)/

▶verb

• 1 fill with the urge or ability to do or feel something.

  ■ create (a feeling) in a person.

  ■ (inspire someone with) animate someone with (a feeling).

• 2 give rise to.

• 3 inhale.

– derivatives
inspirer noun,
inspiring adjective,
inspiringly adverb.

– origin ME enspire, from OFr. inspirer, from L. inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’.