Spirit vs Influence - What's the difference?
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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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, title= The manner or style of something.
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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.
* South
(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
* Spenser
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(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
The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
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, title= An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
A person or thing exerting such power or action.
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, title= (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
(obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
* Hooker
(electricity) Electrostatic induction.
To affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
To exert, make use of one's influence.
(obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.
As a noun spirit
is spirit (alcohol).As a verb influence is
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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.
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English
(wikipedia influence)Noun
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
- God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "influence": cultural, political, social, economic, military, personal, moral, intellectual, mental, good, bad, positive, negative, beneficial, harmful, huge, big, heavy, significant, important, potential, actual, primary.Verb
(influenc)- The politician wants to influence the public.
- I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.