| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The most central and material part: core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, root1, spirit, stuff, substance. Law : gravamen. See BE. 2. The seat of a person's innermost emotions and feelings: bosom, breast, heart. Idioms: bottom of one's heart, cockles of one's heart, one's heart of hearts. See FEELINGS. 3. A member of the human race: being, body, creature, homo, human, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, person, personage. See BEINGS. 4. The essential being of a person, regarded as immaterial and immortal: spirit. See BE. 5. The vital principle or animating force within living beings: breath, divine spark, élan vital, life force, psyche, spirit, vital force, vitality. See BODY.
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