different between reverential vs spiritual

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v????n??l/

Adjective

reverential (comparative more reverential, superlative most reverential)

1. Showing or characterized by reverence; respectful.

   Synonym: reverent

   Antonym: irreverential

   • 2012, Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator as Critic (University of Michigan Press, ?ISBN), page 94:

     The reverential tone intensified as this section progressed. When each spectator had purportedly become her mother, she was invited to share her mother's wisdom, prefaced by the words "I always said."

Derived terms

• irreverential
• reverentially
• reverentialness

Anagrams

• interleaver

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuall

Etymology

From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp???t???l/, /?sp???tj??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sp???t?u?l/, /?sp????t??ul?/

Adjective

spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

   a spiritual substance or being

   • It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. (Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

   • If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.

7. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

   the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spiritual (plural spirituals)

1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

   He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

Synonyms

• folk song

Translations

References

• spiritual at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spiritual in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• spiritual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French spirituel, Late Latin sp?ritu?lis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spiritu?al/

Adjective

spiritual m or n (feminine singular spiritual?, masculine plural spirituali, feminine and neuter plural spirituale)

1. spiritual

Declension

Synonyms

• sufletesc

Related terms

• spiritualism
• spiritualitate