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Spiritus mundi

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The spirit, outlook, point of view, or social and cultural values characteristic of an era of human history. capitalized, sometimes

    ". . . a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīritus mundī (literally “spirit of the world”).

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