spirit man
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man devoted to spiritual affairs, such as a shaman, witch doctor, faith healer, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "‘Why all man so quiet?’ he asked. ‘Ogilla! Debil-debil.’ ‘Spirit man belonga bone?’ ‘Oo-ai. He follow all a time. He here now! Last night Charcoal hear him cry for bone belonga him!’"
- "In a personal reflection on the epidemic, Allen Wright observes, “News of another death now comes with such frequency that my mourning is constant. I imagine the spirits of the departed waiting in line until they can be properly grieved.” Wright's statement implies that New York is populated by “spiritmen” because they have yet to be properly grieved."
- "Her mother prayed that someone would find her and rescue her, though this was very unlikely to happen. Anyone acting against the instructions of the spiritman was likely to come to an untimely end."
- "Thanks to the long, slow, patient years of constant small strengthenings of the spirit, in triumphs achieved over fleshly greeds and brutal instincts, the flesh now yields obedience, doubtful, irregular, and strange, almost questioning obedience at first, but none the less change has come, and the beginning of the spiritman's control over the carnal man is established."
- "It must be on the inside in order to stop sin and starvation of the spirit man inside of you."
- "Notice that verse 18 says everything that is in the new nature (the spirit-man) is of God."