Definition of wairua in English:
wairua
nounPlural wairuasˈwʌɪruːə
NZ The spirit or the soul.
participants who stopped smoking confirmed a positive effect on their wairua
Example sentencesExamples
- The survival of the wairua was never assured.
- I felt myself reaching for the megaphone to release that energy and wairua.
- It was an amazing place which was full of sadness, and you could feel the very wairua of those prisoners who had been there once.
- She explained how wairua was about connection, not spirits.
- He was accompanied and watched over by his wairua.
- I believe that this can and will be done within the confines and wairua of our tupuna.
- We're doing well, and we can do even better to enhance the multicultural wairua of the city by all stakeholders.
- I may not have Maori blood in me, but the spirit —wairua—of New Zealand is in me.
- In retrospect, they could see how smoking had clouded their wairua "like a fog".
- Would he be consulted on his spiritual needs, on the wairua of this land transport programme?
Origin
Early 19th century: Maori.