/ɡaɪst/
OriginBorrowed from German Geist.
- A ghost, an apparition.
“The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity”
“Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.”
“[...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldvi”
- Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).
“The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.”
“However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding.”
“[...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.”
FormsGeists(plural) · geists(plural)