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spiritual
has definitions from the fields of music,fine art,religion
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[ adjective ] (religion) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
Synonyms Examples "religious texts" "monks of a religious order" "lords temporal and spiritual" "spiritual leaders" "spiritual songs" Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The significant things in it , at the higher religious levels , are the inner emotional , mental , and spiritual occurrences that fill the pressing human needs of self-preservation , self pacification , and self completion . Religion at its best also offers the experience of spiritual fulfillment by inviting man into the highest realm of the spirit . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes , in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes . And the monastic communities were supposed to be made_up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors , their spiritual athleticism . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)Plus the fact that Siddo not_only had the normal ( to Earthmen ) three genders of masculine , feminine , and neuter , but the two extra of inanimate and spiritual . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
Synonyms Used in print (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)By September 1940 the suite had developed into a collection of six songs , `` four spirituals , a dream , and a lullaby '' . Thoroughly modern in treatment , they are at_the_same_time , full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by_no_means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen_Corner ' , ' judgement_day ' , ' Gabriel 's horn ' , and a frustrated devil - with a_few random ' Hallelujahs ' thrown_in for_good_measure . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
Synonyms Examples "a spiritual approach to life" "spiritual fulfillment" "spiritual values" "unearthly love" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)And the basic character of_that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking material body or form or substance
Examples "spiritual beings" "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)Thus the image of man has suffered complete fragmentation in personal and spiritual qualities , and complete objectification in sub-human and quasi mechanistic powers . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] like or being a phantom
Synonyms Examples "a ghostly face at the window" "a phantasmal presence in the room" "spectral emanations" "spiritual tappings at a seance" Related terms |
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