Soul
[səʊl] or [sol]
Definition
(noun.) the human embodiment of something; 'the soul of honor'.
(noun.) a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; 'soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement'.
(noun.) deep feeling or emotion.
(noun.) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life.
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Definition
(a.) Sole.
(a.) Sole.
(v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.
(n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
(n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
(n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
(n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
(n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
(n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
(v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
Typist: Lottie
Synonyms and Synonymous
[1]. Mind, spirit, inner man.[2]. Life, vital principle, animating principle.[3]. Essence, principal part, essential part, best part.[4]. Individual, person, man, human being, intelligent being.[5]. Ardor, fire, fervor, courage, energy, force.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spirit, vital_principle, life, reason, intellect, vitality, fire, leader,inspirer, energy, courage, fervor, affection, feeling, being, person,{[innu]?}
ANT:Soullessness, irrationality, unintellectuality, deadness, unfeelingness,spiritlessness, coldness, mind-issues, nonentity, nullity
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Definition
n. that part of man which thinks feels desires &c.: the seat of life and intellect: life: essence: internal power: energy or grandeur of mind: a human being a person.—ns. Soul′-bell the passing bell; Soul′-cūr′er (Shak.) a parson.—adjs. Souled full of soul or feeling; Soul′-fear′ing (Shak.) soul-terrifying; Soul′ful expressive of elevated feeling.—adv. Soul′fully.—n. Soul′fulness.—adj. Soul′less without nobleness of mind mean spiritless.—ns. Soul′lessness; Soul′-shot -scot a funeral payment.—adj. Soul′-sick morally diseased.—All-souls' Day the 2d November when the souls of the faithful departed are commemorated.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing your soul leaving your body, signifies you are in danger of sacrificing yourself to useless designs, which will dwarf your sense of honor and cause you to become mercenary and uncharitable. For an artist to see his soul in another, foretells he will gain distinction if he applies himself to his work and leaves off sentimental ro^les. To imagine another's soul is in you, denotes you will derive solace and benefit from some stranger who is yet to come into your life. For a young woman musician to dream that she sees another young woman on the stage clothed in sheer robes, and imagining it is her own soul in the other person, denotes she will be outrivaled in some great undertaking. To dream that you are discussing the immortality of your soul, denotes you will improve opportunities which will aid you in gaining desired knowledge and pleasure of intercourse with intellectual people.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I who had threatened to decapitate the broad-browed philosopher was a usurper and a despot. Plato doubtless was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- God bless my soul! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Upon my soul it is uncommon good! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ah, my soul, Budmouth! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nobody, my dear,' replied the Jew; 'not a soul, Tom. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Bless the Lord, on my soul! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Felt Him in my soul, Mas'r,--feel Him now! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Amelia, my dear, said he, I have just had the most extraordinary--yes--God bless my soul! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Upon my SOUL you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Sing on poor souls! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Defoe could not think that God Almighty had made women so glorious, with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men, and all to be only stewards of our houses, cooks, and slaves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We now number, with women and children, two hundred souls, and you will not find a deformed or lame person among the lot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Nearly a hundred souls were in her, all told, when we set sail from Falmouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is a part of the monthly rites of Issus, he replied, in which black men wash the sins from their souls in the blood of men from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In the devotional literature of his cult he is spoken of as the saviour and leader of souls, leading souls to the light and receiving them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is a village of lost souls, he answered, laughing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You are sure, then, Helen, that there is such a place as heaven, and that our souls can get to it when we die? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The community of which the green Martians with whom my lot was cast formed a part was composed of some thirty thousand souls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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