spiritual
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,932 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,601 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church also: religious religious textsa member of a religious order
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul also: unearthly a spiritual approach to lifespiritual fulfillment
- lacking material body or form or substance spiritual beingsthe vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm
- resembling or characteristic of a phantom also: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral a ghostly face at the windowa phantasmal presence in the room
noun
- a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States also: Negro spiritual
spiritual in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was a spiritual thing, though neither knew nor marked it.
Half Portions · Edna Ferber · Chapter 1
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Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens · Chapter 1
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Trouble is, you keep remembering he's such a stumbling-block to any real spiritual inquirer.
The Cavalier · George Washington Cable · Chapter 1
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As we have no soul mirror we cannot see the reflection of our spiritual deformities.
Crankisms · Lisle de Vaux Matthewman · Chapter 1
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To it a Mahatma is a kind of spiritual Mrs. Harris, giving an address in Thibet at which no letters are delivered.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1