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Definition of Spirit away

1. Verb. Carry off mysteriously; as if by magic.

2. Verb. Carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously.

Definition of Spirit away

1. Verb. (transitive) To remove without anyone's noticing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirit Away

spirics spirier spiriest spirifer spirifers spirilla spirillar spirillar dysentery spirillicidal spirillosis

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Literary usage of Spirit away

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Life Among the Indians: Reminiscences from the Life of Benj. G by Benjamin G. Armstrong (1892)
"The Indian belief is that both the good and bad spirit constantly hover around a sick bed and that the sound of drum kept the bad spirit away ; that the ..."

2. Poetical Tragedies by Wilfred Campbell (1908)
"(to spirit) Away! away! It rose in autumn's afternoon, That Jock went striding 'neath ... When love was dead, and laughter, (to spirit) Away! I say, away! ..."

3. The Calcutta Christian Observer (1834)
"Spirit, away ! away ! No time, at the coming of Death, For question, ... It has broken thy bonds of clay; Away, free Spirit, away, If thou mayest ..."

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