Definition of "spirit-stirring" []

• Stirring, rousing, or animating the spirit.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In his account of the harrowing trip, "Voyaging: Southward From the Strait of Magellan," the woodcuts lavishly distributed through the story conspire with his bravura prose to refresh the derivation of "straitened" circumstances and convey the "spirit-stirring glamour of the terrible.""
• "“The announcement of this result by the CHAIR,” reported the Union, “was followed by … the members of the various delegations almost universally springing to their feet, and uniting in one spirit-stirring shout of approbation.”"
• "The blast had something in its tone spirit-stirring and yet melancholy, partaking both of the character of a point of war, and of the doleful sounds which might be chosen to announce an execution of peculiar solemnity."