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ensoulment

ensoulment noun: the act or process of ensouling; the endowment of a developing human being with a soul.

Noun

ensoulment (countable and uncountable, plural ensoulments)

  1. The act or process of ensouling; the endowment of a developing human being with a soul.
    • Western Christians supplemented scientific authority with the consideration that it was not appropriate for ensoulment to accompany the original sin that was inevitably part of conception […].2024, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower Than the Angels, Penguin, published 2025, page 410

Forms of ensoulment

pluralensoulments

Origin of ensoulment

From ensoul + -ment.

Questions about ensoulment

What does ensoulment mean?
Ensoulment means the act or process of ensouling; the endowment of a developing human being with a soul.
What part of speech is ensoulment?
Ensoulment is a noun.
What is the plural of ensoulment?
The plural of ensoulment is ensoulments.

Words near ensoulment in the dictionary

  1. ensorcerizing
  2. Ensors
  3. ensoul
  4. ensouled
  5. ensouling
  6. ensoulment
  7. ensoulments
  8. ensouls
  9. enspect
  10. enspection
  11. enspects

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