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spirituelle

spirituelle adjective: showing great grace and delicacy.

Adjective

spirituelle (comparative more spirituelle, superlative most spirituelle)

  1. (dated) Showing great grace and delicacy.
    • Laughter may be generally classed under three heads,—forced, silly, or vulgar; but hers is the most sweet, real, spirituelle sound possible...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 234
    • Noble in person and in dress and of an unconscious majesty of demeanor, the beauty of the daughter of Marguerite de Valois was far beyond that of the conventional, artful beauties of her day; hers was a spirituelle, eloquent sweetness, […]1901, Caroline Atwater Mason, A Lily of France, page 77

Noun

spirituelle (plural spirituelles)

  1. (dated) An artistic bohemian woman.

Forms of spirituelle

Adjective
comparativemore spirituelle
superlativemost spirituelle
Noun
pluralspirituelles

Origin of spirituelle

Borrowed from French spirituelle.

Questions about spirituelle

What does spirituelle mean?
Spirituelle means showing great grace and delicacy.
What part of speech is spirituelle?
Spirituelle can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near spirituelle in the dictionary

  1. spiritually Israeli
  2. spiritualness
  3. spirituals
  4. spiritualties
  5. spiritualty
  6. spirituelle
  7. spirituelles
  8. spirituosity
  9. spirituoso
  10. spirituous
  11. spirituously

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