spiritual
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Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
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1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
"He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell."
1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
"Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice."
2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
"a spiritual substance or being"
5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.
7. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
"the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation"
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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