Lifeblood vs Soul - What's the difference?
lifeblood | soul |
Blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
* circa 1980 , George Spelvin, Petticoat Loose'', Act II, Scene 1, published in ''George Spelvin's theatre book , volume 3:
(figuratively) That which is required for continued existence or function.
:Gasoline is the lifeblood of the modern city.
* 2006 , James E. Kibler, Memory's Keep , page 55:
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
The spirit or essence of anything.
* , chapter=22
, title= Life, energy, vigor.
* Young
(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
As nouns the difference between lifeblood and soul
is that lifeblood is blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life while soul is the spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.As a verb soul is
to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.lifeblood
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Alternative forms
* life blood, life's bloodNoun
(en-noun)- You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
- The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.
soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
