perispirit
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English
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Etymology
In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), the term is defined with a direct analogy to perisperm (“layer of nutritive tissue that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms”).
Noun
perispirit (countable and uncountable, plural perispirits)
- (spiritualism) A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body.
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Translations
bond between spirit and body
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