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单词 world-spirit
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Definition of world-spirit in English:

world-spirit

noun
  • 1The spirit of worldliness; the spirit of the secular world.

  • 2The immanent principle underlying or shaping the world, especially (in Hegelian thought) as revealed in history.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Ellistone (d. 1652). After German Weltgeist spirit of the world in its mundane aspects, anima mundi and classical Latin spiritus mundī.

 
 

Definition of world-spirit in US English:

world-spirit

noun
  • 1The spirit of worldliness; the spirit of the secular world.

  • 2The immanent principle underlying or shaping the world, especially (in Hegelian thought) as revealed in history.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Ellistone (d. 1652). After German Weltgeist spirit of the world in its mundane aspects, anima mundi and classical Latin spiritus mundī.

 
 
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