moving spirit

noun

Definitions

  1. Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement,…

    Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc.

    • We had formed a conspiracy against an unpopular and ignorant teacher. Its moving spirit [translating Seele] was a fellow-student who seems since then to have taken Henry VIII of England as his model.

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