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- adjective Resembling a
soul or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The books revolve around a 12-year-old London boy who enters a hidden alternate world where statues, imbued with the soullike essence of their makers, come to life.
‘Stoneheart’ Trilogy being Developed for Big Screen | We Are Movie Geeks 2009
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Tonight's scratch choir was all male, epauletted shoulders visible under the wide necks of the white robes, and many faces nearly as white with the exhaustion of soaked and muddy fields, midwatches, cables strummed by the nervous balloons sunfishing in the clouds, tents whose lights inside shone nuclear at twilight, soullike, through the crosshatched walls, turning canvas to fine gauze, while the wind drummed there.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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But the first movement stole so "soft and soullike" on her ear, trembling as it were on the border-land between sound and silence, that she missed the pain she expected, and found only the pleasure she looked not for.
The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864
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