Word Finder - spirit

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The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose.

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A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

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A wandering spirit haunts the island.

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Enthusiasm.

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School spirit is at an all-time high.

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The manner or style of something.

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In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges.

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(usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

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Energy; ardour.

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One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

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a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit

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Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

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to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits

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Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

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Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

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the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document

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Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

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(dyeing) Stannic chloride.

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To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

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To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

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Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.

Such is the present spirit of my nation.

During all the terrible winter which followed, his energy and spirit never failed him.

Maybe some spirit is trying to contact us to set things straight.

To the translation and interpretation of the Scriptures men might bring a fallible judgment, but this would be assisted by the direct action of the Spirit of God in proportion to their faith.

They claimed to have done so in the spirit of good will and a desire to protect the privacy of the tipster.

It is the same spirit that makes people fanatical about a certain sports team, regardless of the players or the score.

No woman had given birth in many sun-cycles, because the planet's spirit was severed without the dhjan and the nishani.

From 1760 owing to the gradual spread of the sceptical spirit and the teaching of Voltaire more tolerant views prevailed.

During the month that the French troops were pillaging in Moscow and the Russian troops were quietly encamped at Tarutino, a change had taken place in the relative strength of the two armies--both in spirit and in number--as a result of which the superiority had passed to the Russian side.

It pained Dean to see her 30 pounds thinner, wearing an ill fitting wig in place of her waist-length ebony hair, but her indomitable spirit continued to leave him in awe.

Under the Restoration he became a peer of France, but protested against the reactionary spirit of the government, and remained in opposition.

This can-do, care-for-our-own spirit permeated the nation.

Vico has been generally described as a solitary soul, out of harmony with the spirit of his time and often directly opposed to it.

This spirit might easily be confounded with the sun, whose power was supposed to be stored up in the warmthgiving tree.

In her latest works she went back to her earlier themes of romantic and unchartered love, but the scene is shifted from Berri, which she felt she had exhausted, to other provinces of France, and instead of passionate manifestos we have a gallery of genre pictures treated in the spirit of Francois le champi.

The newspapers caught Mr. Anagnos's spirit and exaggerated a hundred-fold.

I love your spirit and your strength and that look you give me when I say stupid shit.

Frazer formerly held Virbius to be a wood and tree spirit, to whom horses, in which form tree spirits were often represented, were offered in sacrifice.

In India, too, a dead person treated with funeral honours becomes a guardian spirit - if neglected, a tormenting demon.

From her early years she showed great aptitude for study, an ardent and enthusiastic spirit, and unquestionable talent.

He became (1756-1759) the leading spirit of Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe, and ran some risk (which Frederick's good nature obviated) by somewhat freely criticizing the poems of the king of Prussia.

Dr. Howe was an experimental scientist and had in him the spirit of New England transcendentalism with its large faith and large charities.

The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force.

And don't tell me a divine spirit of sorts.

In the language of the Christian Church the word " infallibility " is used in a more absolute sense, as the freedom from all possibility of error guaranteed by the direct action of the Spirit of God.

At the same time he reproduces their scandalous anecdotes in a quite uncritical spirit, and accepts unquestioningly the 4th-century tradition.

In earlier life he had been a zealous student of Kant and Hegel, and to the end he never ceased to cultivate the philosophic spirit; but he had little confidence in metaphysical systems, and sought rather to translate philosophy into the wisdom of life.

The beautiful truth burst upon my mind--I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.

All the generals, officers, and soldiers of the French army knew it could not be done, because the flagging spirit of the troops would not permit it.

Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales.

That unknown quantity is the spirit of the army, that is to say, the greater or lesser readiness to fight and face danger felt by all the men composing an army, quite independently of whether they are, or are not, fighting under the command of a genius, in two--or three-line formation, with cudgels or with rifles that repeat thirty times a minute.

The French, retreating in 1812--though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves--congregated into a mass because the spirit of the army had so fallen that only the mass held the army together.

Or maybe, he wanted to get rid of his own regret at the idea of taking such a sweet soul, someone who might've been a kindred spirit in a different time and place.

Gabe hated her yet couldn't escape the memory of the compassion and spirit that made him take a stranger to bed last night.

Katie chuckled, and he was almost relieved at the sight of her smile.  Her features had grown paler and gaunter under his watch.  He feared the underworld would sink her spirit, too.  One of them had to have some sort of hope they'd make it out alive.

That Douglas undertook this work and that he makes a plea for more accurate scholarship in the translation have been the basis of a prevalent notion that he is a Humanist in spirit and the first exponent of Renaissance doctrine in Scottish literature.

According to ' Yahweh's spirit, thought of as Yahweh's vital principle, as man's spirit is man's vital principle, is to be breathed into them, as, in Gen.

The spirit in the Old Testament is a refined material thing that may come or be poured out on men.

The Albanian leaders, however, soon displayed a spirit of independence, which proved embarrassing to Turkish diplomacy and caused alarm at Constantinople; their forces came into conflict with a Turkish army under Dervish Pasha near Dulcigno (November 1880), and eventually the league was suppressed.

She was the guiding spirit of the first Fronde, when she brought over Armand, Prince de Conti, her second brother, and her husband to the malcontents, but she failed to attract Conde himself, whose loyalty to the court overthrew the first Fronde.

Of the seventy-eight resolutions none is in any sense epoch-making, and their spirit is that of the traditional Anglican via media.

It seemed as if the spirit of spring had passed through the summer-house.

I feel in Diana's posture the grace and freedom of the forest and the spirit that tames the mountain lion and subdues the fiercest passions.

From the letters after the year 1892 I have culled in the spirit of one making an anthology, choosing the passages best in style and most important from the point of view of biography.

But teacher came to me and taught my little fingers to use the beautiful key that has unlocked the door of my dark prison and set my spirit free.

She even enters into the spirit of battle; she says, "I think it is right for men to fight against wrongs and tyrants."

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air.

The more the Russian army retreated the more fiercely a spirit of hatred of the enemy flared up, and while it retreated the army increased and consolidated.

The army is burning with a spirit of heroism and the leaders, so to say, have now assembled in council.

But in general I can tell you, Papa, that such a heroic spirit, the truly antique valor of the Russian army, which they--which it" (he corrected himself) "has shown or displayed in the battle of the twenty-sixth-- there are no words worthy to do it justice!