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Soul   /soʊl/   Listen
Soul

noun
1.
The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life.  Synonym: psyche.
2.
A human being.  Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone.
3.
Deep feeling or emotion.  Synonym: soulfulness.
4.
The human embodiment of something.
5.
A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s.



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... deceased, was an attorney at law, who lived at Henley, in this county. A man of character and reputation, he had one only child, a daughter—the darling of his soul, the comfort of his age. He took the utmost care of her education, and had the satisfaction to see his care was not ill-bestowed, for she was genteel, agreeable, sprightly, sensible. His whole thoughts were bent to settle ...
— Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead
... borrow thy excess, My feeble faith the strength of thine; I need thy soul's white saintliness To hide the stains ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... that he must be removed from the noise of the city, one of them, F. Sibbern, volunteered to take him home. There his old parents received him with understanding, even rejoicing that anxiety for his soul and not other things ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg
... or animal familiar of the individual, conferred by the medicine men, more is to be said in the ensuing chapters. The yunbeai answers to the Manitu obtained by Red Indians during the fast at puberty; to the 'Bush Soul' of West Africa; to the Nagual of South American tribes; and to the Nyarong of Borneo. The yunbeai has hitherto been scarcely remarked on among Australian tribes. Mr. Thomas declares it to be 'almost non-existent' in Australia, mentioning as ...
— The Euahlayi Tribe - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia • K. Langloh Parker
... Joylessness when crushed by Holiness is restored by Pagan Philosophy. The backsliding Christian is warned in time by Prudence of the fearful consequences of sin, and hastens to turn his back on Pride and the other sins. The soul is led to dread Pride, not by Truth, but by its sufferings ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser


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