inspiration

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) inspiration, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin (deprecated template usage) inspirationem (nominative: (deprecated template usage) inspiratio), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) inspiratus (past participle of (deprecated template usage) inspīrō).

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inspiration (plural inspirations or -)

1. The act of inspiring or breathing in.
2. breath
3. Template:physiology The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm.
4. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
5. A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

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• spark, flash, eureka

• (physiology): expiration

• inspirational

• inspire

• “inspiration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [ɛ̃spiʁasjɔ̃]

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inspiration f (plural inspirations)

1. inspiration
2. a breath

• inspirer

inspiration oblique singular, f (oblique plural inspirations, nominative singular inspiration, nominative plural inspirations)

1. inspiration (act of breathing in)
2. inspiration (something which inspires)

• English: inspiration (borrowed)
• French: inspiration

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (inspiracion)