noun
a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
Synonyms
Negro spiritual
adjective
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
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Examples
- religious texts
- a member of a religious order
- lords temporal and spiritual
- spiritual leaders
- spiritual songs
adjective
concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
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- a spiritual approach to life
- spiritual fulfillment
- spiritual values
- unearthly love
adjective
lacking material body or form or substance
Examples
- spiritual beings
- the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
adjective
resembling or characteristic of a phantom
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- a ghostly face at the window
- a phantasmal presence in the room
- spectral emanations
- spiritual tappings at a seance