Word Meanings - INSPIRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: INSPIRATION

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. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. 2 Tim. iii. 16. The age which we now live in is not an age of inspiration and impulses. Sharp. Plenary inspiration , that kind of inspiration which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired message. -- Verbal inspiration , that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expression of the divine message. (more info) 1. The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. , the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration. 2. 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. Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSPIRATION)

• Ecstasy
• Rapture
• inspiration
• fervor
• frenzy
• transport
• emotion
• joy
• delight
• enthusiasm
• happiness
• Enthusiasm
• Excitement
• sensation
• rapture
• warmth
• fervency
• zeal
• ardor
• vehemence
• passion
• devotion
• Phrensy
• Madness
• insanity
• delirium
• mania
• raving
• hallucination
• afflatus

Related words: (words related to INSPIRATION)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• RAVEN
  A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• RAVENING
  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• RAVAGE
  Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• MEGALOMANIA
  A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• ICONOMANIA
  A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.