anima
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What fellow analyst Carl Jung called the anima, the feminine, is denied; the animus is embraced.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 12, 2018
There is action, and there are explosions, and there are dinosaurs running around and fighting in sequences that will thrill some audiences, but there is no anima behind it.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2018
There is lots of talk about anima and animus, about how men need to make peace with their inner feminine.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2018
Here are some interesting references regarding poetic attributes of a positive anima.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Twenty-nine arrobas and ten libras of wrought iron for the manufacture of animas, sledge hammers, tongs, and hammers with which to work the iron for the artillery.
As they were coming out of the cathedral, Mrs. Shortridge asked L'Isle the meaning of the words on a tablet near them: "Oy se sacca animas."
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
This incident was put down by the populace to the intervention in his favour on the part of the host of departed spirits known as the "ejercito de las animas."
From South America by W. H. (William Henry) Koebel
First, saith he, it is plain by verse 31, they took it in animas, upon their souls,—a soul matter they made of it: there needs no soul for feria or festum, play or feasting.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie