Meaning

noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

adjective concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

adjective concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from…

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