loss of the soul

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He noticed the Day-Glo, photo-pro, three-to-the-beach type of surfing taking center stage and the loss of the soul of the sport he grew up in.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is what is called transformation, and loss of the soul in God.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

For what is the loss of opportunity but the loss of the soul? and the conscious loss of opportunity may go on for a lifetime, a protracted martyrdom.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Neither is he immoderately dejected in the present adversities that may befall him; but the loss of the soul grieves him to his very heart, and he counts it worthy of long lamentation.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

In the evening exhortation, which it had been the Superior's custom to add to the prayers of the vesper-hour, he dwelt with a terrible and ghastly eloquence on the loss of the soul.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various