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inspirer|ɪnˈspaɪərə(r)|
Also 5 -our.
[f. inspire v. + -er1. The 15th c. form may repr. an AF. *inspirour, OF. inspireur, for L. inspirātōr-em.]
One who or that which inspires.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. ii. 65 Speke þou raþer, lorde god, inspirour [L. inspirator] & illumynour of prophetes. 1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. ii. 196 Thou, good lorde, the inwarde inspirour of all prophetes. 1616Rich Cabinet 125 The gracious illumination of a heauenly Inspirer. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 169 Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, Beer. 1795Fortnight's Ramble 60 The Great Supreme inspirer of good. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 325 The Bible..is the great inspirer.
Hence inˈspireress (also, shortened, inˈspiress: see -ess), a female inspirer.
1830W. Taylor Germ. Poetry I. 249 The poet invokes, as his inspiress, that Joy which results from the contemplation of nature. Ibid. II. 495 Echo was his nurse..Venus his inspireress. |