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Soul
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
(2):
(n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
(3):
(n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
(4):
(v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
(5):
(n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
(6):
(n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
(7):
(v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.
(8):
(a.) Sole.
(9):
(a.) Sole.
(10):
(n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Soul'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/soul.html. 1828.
