verb
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to endow with a soul
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to cherish within the soul
Other Word Forms
- ensoulment noun
Etymology
Origin of ensoul
Example Sentences
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To all the feebleness of infancy His majestic powers bow themselves, letting but little play forth on the tender forms they ensoul.
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood
They are found in all regions, and they ensoul the energies of Nature.
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood
For the light of Romance falls on him; he is a shining half faery figure.—Outwardly there was pomp, stately manners, pageantry, high magnificence; inwardly, a burning-up of the national imagination to ensoul it.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
I knew that the daylight was needed to ensoul it, to give to the dead unmeaning material its spiritual symbolism.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
In the future fifth chain it will ensoul the vegetable kingdom, in the sixth the animal, and in the seventh it will attain humanity.
From A Textbook of Theosophy by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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