soul-search
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To engage in deep and critical self-examination.
Example Sentences
- "Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search."
- "Do not do a large soul-search if it is the first time that you have attempted something like this, but find one or two simple things that will be easy to put right once identified."
- "After several years of reading Shiv Khera books and millions of minutes spent in meditative soul-searches, he had eventually found something that he believed he was good at and was able to execute without any trouble."
- "Moreover, just as the adherents of the new protest ideologies have been involved in a soul-search of their own identities and thus involved in struggles to make and to declare choices, so likewise the national society is engaged in soul-search and choice."
- "On my cheek I can still feel the child's kiss—a kiss that has triggered some soul-search inside me."
- "This chapter defines the scope of the book by limiting it to the dialogue between the soul-search of Haizi and his generation through Haizi's poetry, and Jesus Christ predominantly in the Gospel of Luke."