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Spiritual   /spˈɪrɪtʃəwəl/  /spˈɪrɪtʃwəl/   Listen
Spiritual

adjective
1.
Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church.  Synonym: religious.  "A member of a religious order" , "Lords temporal and spiritual" , "Spiritual leaders" , "Spiritual songs"
2.
Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul.  Synonym: unearthly.  "Spiritual fulfillment" , "Spiritual values" , "Unearthly love"
3.
Lacking material body or form or substance.  "The vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"
4.
Resembling or characteristic of a phantom.  Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral.  "A phantasmal presence in the room" , "Spectral emanations" , "Spiritual tappings at a seance"
noun
1.
A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.  Synonym: Negro spiritual.



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"Spiritual" Quotes from Famous Books



... party of philosophers and dilettanti were again left in peaceful possession of Headlong Hall: and, as the former made a point of never losing a moment in the accomplishment of a favourite object, he did not suffer many days to elapse, before the spiritual metamorphosis of eight into four was effected by the clerical dexterity ...
— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock
... friendship hardly less than Schiller's, there was something very grateful in this frank homage combined with rare perspicacity. He saw that Schiller understood him or was at least concerned to understand him. With all their differences they were spiritual congeners, and much might be hoped for from this new connection. So he sent a very cordial reply to the man who had thus 'with friendly hand struck the balance of his existence'; averring that he too dated a new epoch from ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... have long since been made public; but the help he gave Mr. Alcott will probably never be known. Least of all would Emerson have wished it to be known. One can imagine that he said to himself: "Here is a man of rare spiritual quality, with whom I am in the closest sympathy: I cannot permit him to suffer any longer." So after the philosophic school in the Masonic Temple had come to an end, he invited him to Concord and cared for him like a brother. Mr. Alcott ...
— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns
... loomed ahead in the near future, and in spite of her dogged intention to fulfil her bargain, she dreaded unspeakably the actual day which would make her Roger's wife—compelling her to a physical and spiritual bondage from ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... Frenchman means business," said Lady Mary wrathfully to herself, as she watched the scene from the garden. Her mind, from the very severity of its tension, was liable to occasional lapses of this painful kind from the spiritual and ecclesiastical to the mundane and transitory. "I saw it directly he came into the house; and with his opportunities, and living within a stone's-throw, I should not wonder if he were to succeed. Any man would fetch a fancy price at Slumberleigh; and the most fastidious woman in ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley


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