thespiritualpartof apersonthat somepeoplebelievecontinuestoexistin someformaftertheirbodyhasdied, or thepartof apersonthat is notphysicalandexperiencesdeepfeelingsandemotions:
灵魂；心性，心灵
Shesufferedgreatlywhile she wasalive, soletushopeher soul is now atpeace.她生前受过很多苦，所以我们希望现在她的灵魂能得到安宁。
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She's one of thosepeoplewho putstheirheartand soul intotheirwork.
thepartof apersonthat somepeoplebelievecontinuestoexistin someformafter thebodyhasdied, or thepartof apersonor thing thatexpressesthebasicqualitiesthat make it what it is:
May her soulrestinpeace.
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If you say that someone is the soul of aquality, youmeanthepersonhas thatqualityin a highdegree:
He is the soul ofhonor, and would neverintentionallytrytodeceiveyou.
But the frequent link between visiting a church and praying for the souls of people identified as buried there is suggestive.
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Perhaps the best answer is that souls are individuated by having a ' thisness ' or haecceity.
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Finally, the term also referred to the humansoulas well as the "vital spirit" of all living things.
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Executors probably acted as part of their responsibility to benefit thesoulof a testator, although no grants obtained by them are specifically identified.
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It could, of course, simply be that the voters did not understand the categorisation, or did not know what the genre 'soul' meant.
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Its members, who were born with the caul, believed that four times a year their souls would leave their bodies to battle witches.
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The first is the way of the ambitious "singingsoulfor music's sake" (6).
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The prerequisite for good judgement in matters of the external world, and the divination of falsehood, is a knowledge and examination of thesoul.
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They belong instead to a spirit realm and, since they lack souls, they gain power over humans.
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In the more conventional metaphor, the ilex, which figures the contritesoul, sheds its leaves to prepare for new growth.
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A number of authors have suggested that we can account for the unity of consciousness by appealing to a substantial self (orsoul).
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If we human beings are a hylomorphic composite ofsouland matter, then we are each not identical to oursoul.
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For some people worship corporeal objects, some intelligent and invisible spirits, such as the souls of the dead, and others.
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Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process ofsoul-making would be gentler and slower.
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The variety of these personalities and settings are taken on voluntarily, and are co-ordinated with the choices of personalities and settings of every othersoul-entity.
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soul
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human soul
According to him, color harmony may rest on a corresponding vibration in thehumansoul.
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immortal soul
We can only achieve true knowledge, therefore, in death, when theimmortalsoulis freed from the body's fetters.
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living soul
Man is alivingsouland not a cog in a machine.
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