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Definition of Geist
1. a spirit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geist
Literary usage of Geist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1912)
"Im Geist gibt es keine Materie, ebensowenig wie es in der Wahr- 9 heit Irrtum
oder im Guten Böses gibt. Die Vorstellung, daß es wirkliche Substanz-Materie ..."
2. Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon: Ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen by Hermann Julius Meyer (1902)
"... das in zwölf oder drei Artikeln den Glau den an Gott den Vater, den Lohn und
den heiligen Geist ausspricht. Nach der erst in, 4. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"BISHOP BUTLER AND THE ZEIT-Geist. II. BUTLER designs to found a sure system of
morals, and, in order to found it, he tells us how we originally came by all ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"BISHOP BUTLER AND THE ZEIT-Geist.« Is Scotland, I imagine, you have in your
philosophical studies small experience of the reverent devotion formerly, ..."
5. Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"Geist ' is forbidden by nature to flourish in an aristocracy. " So do not," he
continued, " suffer yourself to be deceived by parallels drawn from times ..."
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