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moving spirits

moving spirits is the plural of moving spirit.

Meaning of moving spirit

Noun

moving spirit (plural moving spirits)

  1. Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc.
    • 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.1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 106

Questions about moving spirits

What is moving spirits the plural of?
Moving spirits is the plural of moving spirit.

Words near moving spirits in the dictionary

  1. moving sidewalks
  2. moving sofa problem
  3. moving someone to tears
  4. moving south
  5. moving spirit
  6. moving spirits
  7. moving staircase
  8. moving staircases
  9. moving target
  10. moving targets
  11. moving the deckchairs on the Titanic

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