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animal spirits

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animal spirits
pl.n.
The vitality of good health.

animal spirits
pl n
cheerful and exuberant boisterousness
[originally, referring to a vital force believed to be dispatched throughout the body by the brain]
Translations
animal spirits nplvivacità f inv


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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.
Little by little his animal spirits roused themselves.
Nevertheless in his youth he had plenty of animal spirits and always for his friends warm human sympathies.
 
 
 
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