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soul-attracting
(i) General examples, as soul-attracting, soul-fearing, soul-inspiring, etc. Cf. soul-searching adj.Common esp. in the 16th and 17th centuries. N.E.D. (1913) notes: ‘The number of these is very great, esp. in the works of John Davies of Hereford and J. Beaumont.’
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1577 T. Kendall Trifles f. 11, in tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes Shun man, shun (oh) soule slaiyng sinne, serue God vnto thy graue.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77v A soule imitating deuill.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 41 Here in Sonnets, there in Epigrams, Euaporate your sweet Soule-boyling Flames.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 383 Their soule-fearing clamours haue braul'd downe The flintie ribbes of this contemptuous Citie. View more context for this quotation
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. xiv. 298 Beetle-brow'd Distrust; Soule-boyling Rage; and trouble-state sedition.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche iv. xciv This soul-attracting pattern.
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. i. 12 If thou meanest thus..to raise thy spirit with such generous and soul-ennobling thoughts.
1693 R. Ames Rake 4 Women, Wits, and Soul-inspiring Drink.
1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets xi Soul-shaking Sovereigns of the Passions.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xlii. 165 Thy soul-harrowing intelligence!
1842 Christian Observer Feb. 115/2 Those soul-ensnaring, demoralizing, priestcrafty, and Gospel-debasing theories and practices which have most deeply stained the history of Popery.
1869 E. Forrester & A. M. Forrester Songs of Rising Nation 158 The beauties and charms of her sisters, each soul-thralling sweetness and grace, Are linked in her fairy-like figure.
1934 Times Educ. Suppl. 24 Mar. p. iv/2 A people unimaginative enough to accept a mimsy and scrannel ‘P.R.’ in place of the organ music, the soul-uplifting harmony of ‘Proportional Representation’.
2009 R. Lewis Stick it to Man 8 Culprit: Big, bad, ugly cell-phone company. Problem: Restrictive, soul-choking contracts.
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