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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