Spirit vs Temerity - 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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* 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
* 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
(not countable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
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* 1886 , , The Mayor of Casterbridge , ch. 21
* 1913 , , The Return of Tarzan , ch. 21,
(countable) An act or case of reckless boldness.
* 1910 , , "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine , vol. 48 (Sept),
(not countable) Effrontery; impudence.
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As nouns the difference between spirit and temerity
is that spirit is the undying essence of a human; the soul while temerity is reckless boldness; foolish bravery.As a verb spirit
is to carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.As a proper noun Spirit
is {{altname|Holy Spirit}}.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.
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- 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
Noun
- Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me.
- One day when he knew old Lobbs was out, Nathaniel Pipkin had the temerity to kiss his hand to Maria Lobbs.
- Elizabeth trotted through the open door in the dusk, but becoming alarmed at her own temerity , she went quickly out again by another which stood open in the lofty wall of the back court.
- I am surprised that you, sir, a man of letters yourself, should have the temerity so to interrupt the progress of science.
- Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.
- He had very nearly been guilty of the temerity of arrogating to himself another title in the presence of those he most respected.
Synonyms
* (reckless boldness): audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness * (effrontery): brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpahReferences
* * * * * "temerity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
temerity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * *