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soulaches

soulaches is the plural of soulache.

Meaning of soulache

Noun

soulache (usually uncountable, plural soulaches)

  1. (dated, poetic, usually) A deep, foundational sense of despair, hopelessness, or anguish, often so extreme as to be debilitating to those afflicted by it.
    • “Sure,” said Bridget; “and when you feel a soul-ache, it shows you've been doing wrong, and it hurts you; […]”1874, Helen Cross Knight, chapter IV, in Kitty King; or, Chapters for children, page 31

Questions about soulaches

What is soulaches the plural of?
Soulaches is the plural of soulache.

Words near soulaches in the dictionary

  1. soul-searchings
  2. soul-shaking
  3. soul-sick
  4. soul-sucking
  5. soulache
  6. soulaches
  7. Soulagean
  8. Soulard
  9. Soulards
  10. soulbond
  11. soulbonds

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