spirit
noun
the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
spiritlike
-
a word derived from
spirit.
Example Sentences
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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had stretched out her spiritlike hands, but to draw them back again, in the fashion that fascinated and at the same time maddened him, once too often.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard
It was usually heard on cloudy evenings, a strange, unearthly, winnowing, spiritlike sound, yet easily heard at a distance of a third of a mile.
From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
But there were few indeed among all the kindred of earth, air, and water whose hunting was so savage and so ravenous as that of these slender and spiritlike beings.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful, More spiritlike than even summer's flowers.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
