| 单词 | soul substance |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul substance soul substance n. (a) the substance of which a soul is made; (b) (Cultural Anthropology) an immaterial substance believed to form the ‘spirit’ or ‘self’ of a person (in some cultures also of an animal or object) and which is independent of the material body and outlives it. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [noun] > substance of soul soul stuffa1622 soul substance1652 1652 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Of Christs Test. 11/2 This Compressed blinde Soule-substance, and perished as to God, the Great Love of God, came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall. 1854 A. Ballou Pract. Christian Socialism ii. vii. 279 The material body must have its due supply of appropriate matter; the soul its due supply of appropriate soul-substance. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 318 But what is this abstract numerical principle of identity..? May it be the indivisible Soul-Substance, in which, according to the orthodox tradition, my faculties inhere? 1914 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VII. 234/2 Primitive man was always bent on increasing his soul-substance in order to make his life stronger. 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. ii. 28 Anthropologists are..fairly generally agreed that underlying all religions is what they call animism, or belief in a soul substance discoverable not merely in men but in things. 2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 159 The worldviews of the orang asli and Malay Islam come together in the belief in semangat , or ‘soul substance’. < as lemmas |
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