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UK
/spˈɪɹɪtʃˌuːəl/
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[ US /ˈspɪɹɪˌtʃuəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɪɹɪˌtʃuəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
ADJECTIVE
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concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
lords temporal and spiritual
spiritual songs
a member of a religious order
spiritual leaders
religious texts -
concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
unearthly love
spiritual values
spiritual fulfillment
a spiritual approach to life -
lacking material body or form or substance
spiritual beings
the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm -
resembling or characteristic of a phantom
spiritual tappings at a seance
a ghostly face at the window
spectral emanations
a phantasmal presence in the room
How To Use spiritual In A Sentence
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening. Undefined
- The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
- They are also less likely to get support from strong religious or spiritual beliefs.
- Building anew on the old sacred texts, these innovations brought a spiritual renewal to every major faith.
- What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
- Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
- Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
- The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own, and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855