Word Meanings - REVIVALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

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• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• SPIRITOUS
  1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active.
• SPIRITUALIZATION
  The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
• SPIRITUALIZER
  One who spiritualizes.
• RELIGIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
• RELIGIOUSLY
  In a religious manner. Drayton.
• RELIGIOUSNESS
  The quality of being religious.
• SPIRITUALISM
  The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere
• SPIRITOSO
  Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.
• SPIRITUALNESS
  The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality.
• SPIRITUALTY
  An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. Shak.
• SPIRITED
  1. Animated or possessed by a spirit. "So talked the spirited, sly snake." Milton. 2. Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer. Note: Spirited is much used in composition; as in
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
• IRRELIGIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
• DISPIRITMENT
  Depression of spirits; discouragement. Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.
• UNRELIGIOUS
  Irreligious. Wordsworth.
• HOT-SPIRITED
  Having a fierly spirit; hot-headed.
• UNSPIRIT
  To dispirit. Sir W. Temple.