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inspiration |?insp??r?SH?n|
noun
1 the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative: Helen had one of her flashes of inspiration | the history of fashion has provided designers with invaluable inspiration.
• the quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something: a rare moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display.
• a person or thing that stimulates in this way: he is an inspiration to everyone.
• a sudden brilliant, creative, or timely idea: then I had an inspiration.
• the divine influence believed to have led to the writing of the Bible.
2 the drawing in of breath; inhalation.
• an act of breathing in; an inhalation.
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘divine guidance’): via Old French from late Latin inspiratio(n-), from the verb inspirare (see inspire) .
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