spiritual

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Men having seen that the spiritual is always associated with forms, endeavour by reproducing the forms to recall spirituality; you do produce thereby a something that looks like spirituality, but it is a resemblance only.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not tangible or material. See Synonyms at immaterial.
  2. adjective Of, concerned with, or affecting the soul.
  3. adjective Of, from, or relating to God; deific.
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  • They said he was a representative of Judaism in German spiritual life, who ought -- along with all the other White Jews -- to be eliminated just as the Jews themselves must be The other woman puts down her cup carefully, glances at the crucifix then back again. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • Firstly, they said, the temporal power had no rights over them, the spiritual power, but the spiritual was above the temporal; secondly, the Scriptures, which were sought to be employed against them, could only be expounded by the Pope; thirdly, no one but the Pope could summon a Council. —  Life of Luther
  • Seventh, there is an area around 165 hz. that can cause what I call a spiritual fall or a consciousness collapse. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The meaning of the human and the meaning of the spiritual are the big themes on this issue of —  Audition
  • Do marginalized religious groups play any positive role in American spiritual life? —  AvaxHome RSS:
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  1. Middle English, from Old French spirituel, from Latin spīrituālis, of breathing, spiritual, from spīritus, breath; see spirit.

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  1. from Middle English spirituall, spyrytualle, spirituell, espirituell, from Old French spirituel, spiritueil, French spirituel = Provencal espirital = Spanish Portuguese espiritual = Italian spirituale, from Late Latin spiritualis, of or pertaining to breath, breathing, wind, or air, or spirit, from Latin spiritus (spiritu-), spirit, breath, air: see spirit.
 

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/ˈspɪrɪtʃjuəl/
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