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Spirit up   /spˈɪrət əp/   Listen
Spirit up

verb
1.
Infuse with spirit.  Synonyms: inspirit, spirit.






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"Spirit up" Quotes from Famous Books



... dangers to which we were at first exposed, and who has led me in the way to victory, and to the capital of this ancient kingdom, amidst the acclamations of the King my father's subjects. Why, then, is so much pains taken to spirit up the minds of the people ...
— Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems • W.E. Aytoun

... knowledge, shoreless, vast, Knowledge of ages past and yet to come, Knowledge of nature and the hidden laws That guide her changes, guide the roiling spheres, Sakwal on sakwal,[1] boundless, infinite, Yet ever moving on in harmony, He thought to puff his spirit up with pride Till he should quite forget a suffering world, In sin and sorrow groping blindly on. But when he saw that lust of power moved not, And thirst for knowledge turned him not aside From earnest search after the ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles

... he could mean, wondered if by any chance he suspected that long and dreary wandering of her spirit up and down the mountain-side. She nestled her head down against Eustace's shoulder with a feeling of unutterable thankfulness that she had returned ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell



Words linked to "Spirit up" :   liven, liven up, animate, enliven, invigorate



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