moving spirit
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc.
Example Sentences
- "At the beginning of the year 1804 the most formidable conspiracy which had yet threatened the government and the life of Napoleon was discovered. […] Georges Cadoudal, the Breton peasant, who was the very soul of the royalist party, was the moving spirit."
- "We had formed a conspiracy against an unpopular and ignorant teacher. Its moving spirit [translating Seele] was a fellow-student who seems since then to have taken Henry VIII of England as his model."
- "Pompadour was the moving spirit in the elegant refurbishment of most of the royal residences, and in the development of a number of minor residences such as Crécy, Bellevue and the Trianon, in all of which she indulged the king's penchant for intimacy and privacy."
- "A couple of years later, he met Timothy Duffy, who was the moving spirit behind the Music Maker Relief Foundation."