life force
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See also: lifeforce and life-force
English
Noun
life force (countable and uncountable, plural life forces)
- The hypothetical principle that animates all living organisms.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 61:
- The human tribe partakes of the mana or life-force of the animal, and is strengthened[.]
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "Yes, I'm beating it!" he cried. "Ever since Felkin held his first consultation with Atkinson I have felt the life-force stealing back into me."
- An impulse or influence that gives something life or vitality.
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principle that animates living organisms
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