soul

Definitions

1. The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
   countable, uncountable
2. The spirit or essence of anything.
   countable, uncountable
3. web (strip of material between flanges)
4. a doctrine that God creates a new soul for every human being bon. Cf. metempsychosis. — creationist, n. — creationistic, adj.
5. Life, energy, vigor.
   countable, uncountable
6. feminine singular of almo
7. the doctrine or belief that the soul enters the body by divine infu-sion at conception or birth.
8. Soul music.
   countable, uncountable
9. the theory that all souls are actually a single unity. — mono-psychic, monopsychical, adj.
10. A person, especially as one among many.
    countable, uncountable
11. the denial that the soul exists. — nullibist, n.
12. An individual life.
    countable, uncountable
13. Philosophy. the doctrine that each object in the universe has either a mind or an unconscious soul. — panpsychist, n. — panpsychistic, adj.
14. A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
    countable, uncountable
15. the belief that one person may have many souls or modes of intelligence. — polypsychic, polypsychical, adj.
16. the guiding of a soul, especially that of a person recently dead into the lower world. — psychagogue, n. — psychagogic, adj.
17. Obsolete, a conflict or battle between the soul and the body.
    Obsolete,
18. the manifestation of a person’s soul to another, usually at some distance from the body. — psychorrhagic, adj.
19. the belief that the soul has a divine nature.

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Eestihing

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Հայերենհոգի

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Íslenskasal

Italianoanimapersonasoul

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ភាសាខ្មែរព្រលឹងវិញ្ញាណ

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Latinaalimaanimaanimuscorflatussufflitum+ 3 more

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Te Reo Māoringākautinowairua

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മലയാളംആത്മാവ്

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မြန်မာဝိညာဉ်

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Românăspiritsuflet

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سنڌيروح

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తెలుగుఆత్మ

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ئۇيغۇرچەروھ

Українськадухдушасоул

اردوآتماروح

O'zbekchajonruh

Tiếng Việtdạhồn pháchlinh hồnpháchtâm hồn靈+ 3 more

中文心靈 /心灵靈魂 /灵魂魂魂魄+ 1 more

繁體中文魂魂魄

isiZuluumoya

Examples

“1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain⟳ one unless she wins the love⟳ of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess⟳ an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.”

“No matter⟳ how early I came down, I would find⟳ him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last⟳ I began to realize⟳ in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take⟳ such holidays as I could get⟳, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.”

“Flowey: See⟳ that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!”

“From another point⟳ of view⟳, it was a place⟳ without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press⟳, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.”

“It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make⟳ him a great President. It is that quality of soul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality of soul which makes him a strong help⟳ to all those in sorrow or in trouble⟳, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest⟳ in one's fellow men.”

“That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give⟳ our arms ſucceſs.”

“18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin I want⟳ to gather together about twenty souls and sail⟳ away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort⟳ of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.”

“Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.”

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