Geist vs Geis - What's the difference?
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Ghost, apparition.
*1877 , The spiritual magazine:
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*1996 , Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects :
Spirit (of a group, age, era etc).
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*1995 , Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism :
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a solemn injunction
As nouns the difference between geist and geis
is that geist is ghost, apparition while geis is or geis can be a solemn injunction.geist
English
Noun
- The geists' eat and drink, but only as '''geists''' — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their ' geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.
citation, genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist ; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.}}
- [...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist , a complex function of Freud's worldview.
citation, genre= , publisher=Sivaji Publications , isbn= , page=54 , passage=The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. }}
citation, genre=Law , publisher=Colorado Bar Association , isbn= , page=1640 , passage=However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding. }}
- [...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist , principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.