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soul Noun 1. the spiritual part of a person, regarded as the centre of personality, intellect, will, and emotions: believed by many to survive the body after death 2. the essential part or fundamental nature of anything: the soul of contemporary America 3. deep and sincere feelings: you've got no soul 4. Also called: (soul music) a type of Black music using blues and elements of jazz, gospel, and pop 5. a person regarded as a good example of some quality: the soul of prudence 6. a person: there was hardly a soul there 7. the life and soul Informal a person who is lively, entertaining, and fun to be with: the life and soul of the campus [Old English sāwol] Soul a doctrine that God creates a new soul for every human being bon. Cf. metempsychosis. — creationist, n. — creationistic, adj. the doctrine or belief that the soul enters the body by divine infu-sion at conception or birth. 1. the passage of a soul from one body to another. 2. the rebirth of the soul at death in another body, either human or animal. Cf. creationism. — metempsychic, metempsychosic, metempsychosical, adj. the theory that all souls are actually a single unity. — mono-psychic, monopsychical, adj. the denial that the soul exists. — nullibist, n. Philosophy. the doctrine that each object in the universe has either a mind or an unconscious soul. — panpsychist, n. — panpsychistic, adj. the belief that one person may have many souls or modes of intelligence. — polypsychic, polypsychical, adj. the guiding of a soul, especially that of a person recently dead into the lower world. — psychagogue, n. — psychagogic, adj. Obsolete, a conflict or battle between the soul and the body. the manifestation of a person’s soul to another, usually at some distance from the body. — psychorrhagic, adj. the belief that the soul has a divine nature. Theology. the doctrine that a new human soul is generated from the souls of the parents at the moment of conception. — traducianist, n. — traducianistic, adj. any of various theories of metempsychosis or reincarna-tion, as the Hindu doctrines of Karma.
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soul TranslationsI didn't see a soul → no vi a nadie; I didn't see a soul → je n'ai vu (absolument) personne (Mus) → Soul m; the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → der Ärmste hatte keine Unterkunft; I didn't see a soul → ich habe keine Menschenseele gesehen the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → il poveraccio non aveva dove dormire; |
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| Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door-- Darkness there and nothing more. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight--perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. The woman who sat in front of me was the woman whom I had met so strangely that day on that solitary moorland, and whom in prophecy still more strange my soul had declared to be, "now and for ever and before all worlds the woman God had created for me, and that unless I could be hers and she mine, there could be no home, no peace, for either of us so long as we lived--" and now so strangely met again. |
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