spirit
Definition of spirit:
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part of speech: noun
Vital force: the soul: a ghost: mental disposition: enthusiasm: real meaning: chief quality: a very lively person: any volatile, inflammable liquid obtained by distillation, as brandy:- pl. intellectual activity: liveliness: persons with particular qualities of mind: mental excitement: spirituous liquors.
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part of speech: noun
A ghost.
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part of speech: noun
An intelligent being imperceptible to the senses; an immaterial substance; the soul of man; a spectre or ghost; ardour; courage; temper or disposition of mind; the intellectual powers of man, as distinct from the body; a man of life, fire, and enterprise; purest part of a body; essential quality; a liquid, as brandy, whisky, or rum, obtained by distilling a fermented vegetable extract; real meaning, as opposed to the letter; in Scrip., sometimes the renewed nature of man; the immortal part of man; pre- eminently, the Holy Spirit.
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part of speech: verb
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Common misspellings:
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- spirt (69.9%)
- spirirt (3.7%)
- spirte (0.5%)
- sprirt (1.1%)
- spirite (3.2%)
- spriit (0.8%)
- sirit (0.5%)
- spirts (0.3%)
- spirtit (0.5%)
- spirti (1.1%)
- sp (0.3%)
- spitrit (1.1%)
- spirut (0.3%)
- sperit (2.7%)
- spririt (6.4%)
- spitit (1.1%)
- spiret (4.8%)
- spiritly (0.3%)
- sprital (0.3%)
- dspirite (0.5%)
- spearit (0.8%)
Usage examples for spirit:
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You have put some spirit back into my body.
"The Cow Puncher" – Robert J. C. Stead -
And, though she did not suspect it, she had in her the Crusader's spirit
"The Inside of the Cup, Volume 5" – Winston Churchill -
He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.
"The Grammar of English Grammars" – Goold Brown -
Her spirit was not broken certainly.
"Angela's Business" – Henry Sydnor Harrison
