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spirit

A spirit is a being that has no physical body, and cannot usually be seen or touched. The people on the island believed in many gods and spirits that affected life. A spirit is a part of you that cannot be seen or touched. Often this is important to religion and different from the soul (religions do not agree what the difference is). They tried to talk to the spirit of their dead mother through a medium. The preacher claimed the soul was the mind but the spirit was something more special. If you have spirit, you are very excited about something or a very strong supporter. People with school spirit always cheer for their schools team. The spirit of a statement or rule is the idea or purpose for it. What she did fit the spirit of the law, even though it brought the law as it was written. In the spirit of fairness I let the younger children break some rules. The spirit of the agreement was that we would have equal shares. A spirit is a volatile liquid, like alcohol.

spirit

If you spirit something, you carry it away, usually in secret or mystery.

spirit

Another name for the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost).

spirit

the vital principle or animating force within living things (= tone, feel, feeling, smell) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people the feel of the city excited him a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting it had the smell of treason a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings (= emotional state) the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) his emotional state depended on her opinion he was in good spirits his spirit rose (= life) animation and energy in action or expression it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it (= intent) the intended meaning of a communication (= heart) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind he had a change of heart infuse with spirit The company spirited him up

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Conjugation spirit conjugation

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spirit · verb

Examples spirit examples

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Simple sentences

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The spirit of patriotism has its source in the love of the family.
The evil spirit was driven away from the house.
I found a kindred spirit in Bob.
That's the spirit.
Wonderful was the fighting spirit of the Australian rugby team.
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
He lost his spirit.
Though he is old, he has a youthful spirit.
She seems to be possessed by an evil spirit.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Two souls, one spirit.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
We need to nourish our spirit.
I'll be with you in spirit.
Spirit manifested itself.
The medieval church despised the body and exalted the spirit.
His words aroused my competitive spirit.
He is a man of spirit.
He is quite young in spirit.
They may be poor, but rich in spirit.

Movie subtitles

And let your spirit grow!
If you can't uncover the truth by then, Your spirit, without following any procedures, will go straight to hell.
When you end up at the worst level of hell, as your spirit is destroyed, memories of people cannot survive.
Since I'm unable to feed my spirit, my powers are becoming weaker.
Then, the spirit is destroyed.
Actually, it's my spirit animal.
He does everything to please you and all you've ever done is crush his spirit.
Not exactly in the spirit of the game, Janelle.
And in the spirit of full and frank disclosure, please be aware that I am now booked into the Family Contraceptive Clinic, and all measures will be in place by our wedding night.
There's the spirit!
But, day and night, you could not free your spirit from this place. You seemed to be Satan's toy.
The spirit of revolution soared over the Russian land.
You will be free as long as your love for the spirit of Erik overcomes your fear.
Now, you shall see the evil spirit that makes my evil face!
The Great Spirit, He was the one who gave us these physical bodies.
On your spirit of self-sacrifice and your proven valour depend many lives.
That's the spirit!
I feel sure he will accept this gesture in the spirit with which it's offered.
A god or a spirit or something.
Our King is dead. but his spirit still lives in us. and in his child, Christina.
Her father, our King. brought up this child as a boy. accustomed her ears to the sound of cannon fire. and sought to mold her spirit after his own.
And from all your northern fastness here, the Viking spirit has dominated Europe.
In a week, I'll get some spirit without flogging.
Not to punish, but to break their spirit.
That shows a nice spirit.
In the name of the all holiest, and through this cross, be the evil spirit cast out until the end of time.
Why, the very spirit of government has been violated.
The kid's spirit was crushed.
Bud, how's youssef? His body's broken, but his spirit is strong.
Daniel is a really, really nice, really sweet person, and he has such a gentle-- a very gentle spirit, I guess you can say.
If you still plan to threaten the Princess-- A disabled person and furthermore, one with a faint spirit, why would I want to touch her? But, compared to the Princess, shouldn't you worry about yourself?
Special thanks to the US, the UK and China for showing us the friendly and peaceful spirit of the WOC.
And the reason why I came to see ghosts when I came back alive after wandering around as a spirit, was because it was what I had promised.
It's strait difficult sincerely to interpret this is a visitation of the divine spirit or is a revelation of a transcendental world.
Cripes, Gov'nor. the Evil Spirit is at it again!
Evil Spirit.my eys!
So. we have no spirit, huh?
When they are back, they spoil the spirit out here.
She's a bit bilious, more in spirit than in body, I'm afraid.
That's the spirit I like.

News and current affairs

His was the aristocracy of the spirit.
In the spirit of Schmitt, Putin's men designated a liberal party, the Union of Right Forces, as their ur-enemy.
Let's hope that when the last whistle blows at the final in Berlin on July 9, we Germans retain as much of this positive spirit as possible.
His numerous sermons and speeches revealed his intention to restore Adalbert's spirit in Poland.
The only real winner would be the spirit of that evil.
Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
The spirit of hope in the country is palpable, though some older people, who saw earlier moments of apparent relaxation of authoritarian rule come and go, remain cautious.
The new economy teaches us that research, technological innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit in a competitive market - all things that are not plentiful in Europe - have a high payoff.
The new spirit of democratic capitalism goes by different names and mobilizes a variety of symbols.
Lurking behind China's ambition in space is the spirit of the Cold War, which continues to permeate the inner circles of the military high command, whose adversary is unmistakably the United States.
Campaign contributions were not just a matter of public spirit, but an investment.
But a shift that contradicts the UN Charter's spirit has occurred.
Europe is not being rejected; instead, the criticism has been in the spirit of improving European institutions in the name of the common good.
Such violence is unjust on its face because it suppresses and intimidates both body and spirit.
We Europeans must favor stability, create a real spirit of co-ownership, and promote political responsibility.In this new framework, the EU should avoid excessive conditionality, especially during the transition period.
The TPP is also a political response to China's new aggressiveness, built therefore in a spirit of confrontation and containment, not of cooperation.
The corruption and lawlessness that characterizes Yanukovych's Ukraine should spur the EU to hold fast both to the letter and the spirit of its conditions.
The benefits of such inter-community spirit are evident in one of the world's most diverse cities, London.
That exceptional spirit benefited her husband, but the country's institutions paid a high price.
American President Barack Obama visited China, more in the spirit of a supplicant to an imperial court than the leader of the world's greatest superpower.
So, here - in a spirit of supreme, but perhaps not totally naive, optimism - are the 2015 New Year's resolutions that I would most like each of East Asia's leaders to make.
The same spirit needs to animate the L'Aquila meeting.
It reminds us of the closeness, in spirit, between extreme neo-cons and communist idealogues.

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