Spirituality
[,spɪrɪtjʊ'ælətɪ] or [,spɪrɪtʃu'æləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.
(n.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
(n.) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Immateriality.[2]. Religious function (as of the church).[3]. Spiritual-mindedness.
Typist: Manfred
Examples
- There is a spirituality about the face, however--she gently turned it towards the light--which the typewriter does not generate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Bulstrode said no more, attributing some dissatisfaction which she felt to her own want of spirituality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No; I do not think the actual spirituality of Wordsworth would have appealed to a Greek. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You love the sham spirituality, it's your food. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What does she care for, what is her spirituality? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew that his spirituality was concomitant of a process of depravity, a sort of pleasure in self-destruction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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