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soul-search en · NOUN
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(countable) An act or instance of soul-searching.
Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.
2004, Linda Elaine Thomas, Living Stones in the Household of God, page 158:Do not do a large soul-search if it is the first time that you have attempted something like this, but find one or two simple things that will be easy to put right once identified.
2011, Gail Duff, The Wheel Of The Wiccan Year, page 200:After several years of reading Shiv Khera books and millions of minutes spent in meditative soul-searches, he had eventually found something that he believed he was good at and was able to execute without any trouble.
2014, Sirpy, Smashed!::
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(uncountable) The process of deep and critical self-examination.
Moreover, just as the adherents of the new protest ideologies have been involved in a soul-search of their own identities and thus involved in struggles to make and to declare choices, so likewise the national society is engaged in soul-search and choice.
1968, Curriculum Imperative: Survival of Self in Society:This chapter defines the scope of the book by limiting it to the dialogue between the soul-search of Haizi and his generation through Haizi's poetry, and Jesus Christ predominantly in the Gospel of Luke.
2018, Xiaoli Yang, A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke, page 6:On my cheek I can still feel the child's kiss—a kiss that has triggered some soul-search inside me.
1998, United Nations Population Fund, A Guidance Resource Manual on the Growing Filipino Adolescent:
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soul-search en · VERB
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To engage in deep and critical self-examination.
These are the times when you should take a deep breath and deeply soul-search your own actions to see whether you could have done anything at all that would have increased your tip.
2006, Peter Stokes, How's Everything?:The quiet times I steal back from you for myself has given me time to soul-search.
2013, Sherika Moore, Just Listen, page 52:Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and experts in a great many fields are noting that what we are losing in the information age is the ability to soul-search.
2011, Brian Luke Seaward, Managing Stress: A Creative Journal, page xi:
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