Perispirit

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said by spiritualists to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From peri- + spirit. 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”).

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