Self vs Spirit - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
Myself.
The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
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*:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
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, title= (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
(botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
(botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
(obsolete) same
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* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Dryden
The undying essence of a human; the soul.
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A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
* John Locke
Enthusiasm.
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* Alexander Pope
(usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Energy; ardour.
* Fuller
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
* Dryden
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
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(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
* Spenser
* Spenser
(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
* Ben Jonson
Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
* Chaucer
(dyeing) stannic chloride
To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
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* Willis
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .
* Jonathan Swift
As a proper noun self
is .As a noun spirit is
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English
(wikipedia self)Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
- I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.
Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
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Derived terms
* selfieSee also
* self- * person * I * egoVerb
(en verb)Antonyms
* outcrossAdjective
- I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
- on these self hills
- At that self moment enters Palamon.
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----spirit
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}
- a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
- A wandering spirit haunts the island.
- Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
Sunderland 2-2 West Brom, passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
- "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
- a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit
- Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
- to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits
- God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.
- For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
- The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .
- Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.
- the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
- the four spirits and the bodies seven
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)See also
* ghost * soulVerb
(en verb)citation
- I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
- Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
- Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.