OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8315

soul

/səʊl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alma • pneuma
The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not a…
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to…
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