Definition of "spiring" []

• Shooting up in a spire or spires. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Once in a blue moon, it is true, a person or cause will come along that is capable of spiring more than that, submerging the scape-goating instinct in more positive feelings of excitement and hopefulness."
• "After this they continued drifting on till one day they espied a mountain terrible tall and spiring high in air, whereat they rejoiced, when presently an island appeared."
• "On cheeks of dark brunette, like bamboo spiring brown?"