Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a high soul; having exalted principles or feelings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a high or noble spirit; honorable.
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Examples
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Ah! thought Cecilia, is virtue, then, as inconsistent as vice? and can the same character be thus high-souled, thus nobly disinterested with regard to riches, whose pride is so narrow and so insurmountable, with respect to family prejudice!
Cecilia 2008
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The motherly, but coarse kindness of Dame Glendinning, and the doating fondness of her old domestic, seemed now the only kind feeling of which she formed the object; and she could not but reflect how little these were to be compared with the devoted attachment of a high-souled youth, whom the least glance of her eye could command, as the high-mettled steed is governed by the bridle of the rider.
The Monastery 2008
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Sir Kenneth had full leisure to enjoy these and similar high-souled thoughts, fostered by that wild spirit of chivalry, which, amid its most extravagant and fantastic flights, was still pure from all selfish alloy — generous, devoted, and perhaps only thus far censurable, that it proposed objects and courses of action inconsistent with the frailties and imperfections of man.
The Talisman 2008
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They were all touched by the romantic enthusiasmfor lofty, high-souled ideals; they all felt that reverence for the past, for the “mystic chords of memory,” which Burke andColeridge, Fichte and Father Jahn, had inculcated in their disciples.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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His mother, he surmised, was the natural child of a high-souled Virginia planter,and from this source came his uncommon powers of mind and tenacity of purpose.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Cronos, and from him sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled
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They were all touched by the romantic enthusiasmfor lofty, high-souled ideals; they all felt that reverence for the past, for the “mystic chords of memory,” which Burke andColeridge, Fichte and Father Jahn, had inculcated in their disciples.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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His mother, he surmised, was the natural child of a high-souled Virginia planter,and from this source came his uncommon powers of mind and tenacity of purpose.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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His mother, he surmised, was the natural child of a high-souled Virginia planter,and from this source came his uncommon powers of mind and tenacity of purpose.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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They were all touched by the romantic enthusiasmfor lofty, high-souled ideals; they all felt that reverence for the past, for the “mystic chords of memory,” which Burke andColeridge, Fichte and Father Jahn, had inculcated in their disciples.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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