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  1. 1. a. Sole. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Sole. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. i. To afford suitable sustenance. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence." Source: opted
  5. 5. n. The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness. Source: opted
  8. 8. n. A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul. Source: opted
  9. 9. n. A pure or disembodied spirit. Source: opted
  10. 10. v. t. To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind. Source: opted
  11. 11. n. the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life Source: wordnet
  12. 12. n. a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential Source: wordnet
  13. 13. n. deep feeling or emotion Source: wordnet

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