Noun

(en noun)

The undying essence of a human; the soul.

* , chapter=7

, title= 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 .}}

* 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven

a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.

A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

A wandering spirit haunts the island.

* John Locke

Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.

Enthusiasm.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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.}}

The manner or style of something.

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* Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.

(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

"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.

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit

* Dryden

Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits

* South

God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.

(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

* Spenser

For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.

* Spenser

The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .

(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

* Ben Jonson

Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.

Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document

(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

* Chaucer

the four spirits and the bodies seven

(dyeing) stannic chloride

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) release, the act of releasing or letting something go.

*{{quote-book, year=1824, author=Robert Kerr, title=A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=On his releasement from prison, he learned that the beloved cause of his persecution had been forced to marry a nobleman, whose name he could not discover, but who had carried her to his castle near Bristol. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1895, author=Alban Butler, title=The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=St. Eulogius himself was obliged by the persecutors to live always, after his releasement , with the treacherous bishop Reccafred, that wolf in sheep's clothing. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1893, author=James Cook, title=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Immediately upon getting this information I dispatch'd Mr. Hicks away in the Long boat with a strong party of men to rescue them but before he went Tootaha and the other Chiefs was made to understand that they must send some of their People with Mr. Hicks to shew him the place where our men were, and at the same time to send orders for their immediate releasement , for if any harm came to the men they (the Chiefs) would suffer for it; and I believe at this time they wished as much to see the Men return in safety as I did, for the guides conducted Mr. Hicks to the place before daylight, and he recovered the men without the least opposition, and return'd with them about 7 o'Clock in the morning of Tuesday, 11th. }}

The exorcism of an outworldly spirit from someone.