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world spirit

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noun

  1. (often initial capital letters) God.

  2. world soul.


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Is it not at least equally reasonable to assume that there are many spirits, or many shapes taken by the superpersonal world spirit, with which the soul can get into touch?

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot

There is no other art, perhaps, by which the child so intimately links the world spirit with his own spirit.

From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne

The world spirit is moulting, and we're all sick together.

From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter

The great world spirit paid no more attention to the prone and weeping woman than to the motes, that were swimming gaily in the sunbeams.

From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

To him far more than to any contemporary is it due that self-abnegation, self-identification with the world spirit, was made the basis of universal education.

From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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