1860 Dayton (Ohio) Daily Empire 27 Aug. What an illuminating of unusual precincts, and enthusing of shakey Democrats, during that march!

1898 School Jrnl. 25 July 739/1 The stereotyped local celebrities' enthusings over ‘Ladies and gentlemen, to whom are entrusted the noblest and highest offices’.

1917 City Foursquare Jan. 11 These lines are dictated for the enthusing of any brother who may sometimes have a tendency toward discouragement.

1984 J. Clausen tr. B. Classen & G. Goettle in E. H. Altbach et al. German Feminism v. 64 The enthusings of those who, after centuries of phlegmatic indolence, think one independent step signals victory over deep-seated modes of behavior.

2005 Irish Times 9 Mar. 12/3 As for..the enthusing of parents, he doesn't see a problem. ‘The children will bring the parents,’ he says.

1858 Richmond (Va.) Enquirer 3 Aug. Music, with its ‘enthusing strains’, led the way for the delivery of Diplomas to the Masters of Arts.

1896 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, Kansas) 16 Oct. One of those earnest, lively, enthusing speeches which keeps an audience in a good humor.

1909 Daily Chron. 27 Oct. 3/3 A little too much of the enthusing forest lover.

1991 I. Rankin Hide & Seek 14 Gill had taken up with a disc jockey on a local radio station, a man whose enthusing voice Rebus seemed to hear whenever he entered a shop.

2005 Church Times 19 Aug. 21/2 It is an enthusing book, and one that would establish some good basic principles from which to move on.