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soul-searches

soul-searches is the plural of soul-search.

soul-searches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of soul-search.

Meaning of soul-search

Noun

soul-search (countable and uncountable, plural soul-searches)

  1. (countable) 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
  2. (uncountable) 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

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Questions about soul-searches

What is soul-searches the plural of?
Soul-searches is the plural of soul-search.

Words near soul-searches in the dictionary

  1. soul-rending
  2. soul-rendingly
  3. soul-search
  4. soul-searched
  5. soul-searcher
  6. soul-searches
  7. soul-searching
  8. soul-searchings
  9. soul-shaking
  10. soul-sick
  11. soul-sucking

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