soul-search
soul-search noun: an act or instance of soul-searching.
Noun
soul-search (countable and uncountable, plural soul-searches)
- An act or instance of soul-searching.
- Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.2004, Linda Elaine Thomas, Living Stones in the Household of God, page 158
- 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.2011, Gail Duff, The Wheel Of The Wiccan Year, page 200
- The process of deep and critical self-examination.
- 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.1968, Curriculum Imperative: Survival of Self in Society
- On my cheek I can still feel the child's kiss—a kiss that has triggered some soul-search inside me.1998, United Nations Population Fund, A Guidance Resource Manual on the Growing Filipino Adolescent
Verb
soul-search (third-person singular simple present soul-searches, present participle soul-searching, simple past and past participle soul-searched)
- To engage in deep and critical self-examination.
- These are the times when you should take a deep breath and deeply soul-search your own actions to see whether you could have done anything at all that would have increased your tip.2006, Peter Stokes, How's Everything?
- Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and experts in a great many fields are noting that what we are losing in the information age is the ability to soul-search.2011, Brian Luke Seaward, Managing Stress: A Creative Journal, page xi
Forms of soul-search
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | soul-searches |
| alternative form | soulsearch |
| alternative form | soul search |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | soul-searches |
| present participle | soul-searching |
| past participle | soul-searched |
| past | soul-searched |
Questions about soul-search
- What does soul-search mean?
- Soul-search means an act or instance of soul-searching.
- What part of speech is soul-search?
- Soul-search can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of soul-search?
- The plural of soul-search is soul-searches.
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