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animal spirits

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animal spirits
pl.n.
The vitality of good health.
animal spirits
Noun, pl
outgoing and boisterous enthusiasm [from a vital force once supposed to be dispatched by the brain to all points of the body]
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German animal spirits animal npl → Vitalität f
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She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
Little by little his animal spirits roused themselves.
Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Nevertheless in his youth he had plenty of animal spirits and always for his friends warm human sympathies.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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