Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Liveliness of mind or spirit; wittiness or sprightliness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Spirit; wit; aptitude, especially of comprehension and expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Spirit.
- noun a French phrase much used by English writers to denote the common spirit pervading the members of a body or association of persons. It implies sympathy, enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the body as a whole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Spirit ,enthusiasm . - noun A
wit . - noun
Liveliness , or active mind and spirit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun liveliness of mind or spirit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One of the first things seared in to my psyche upon arrival at recruiter training in the Marines was the term esprit de corps.
ERE.net 2009
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One of the first things seared in to my psyche upon arrival at recruiter training in the Marines was the term esprit de corps.
ERE.net 2009
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When the Supreme Court held that the military's interest in esprit de corps allowed it to keep a serviceman from wearing a yarmulke without violating the Free exercise Clause (this was before the 1990 decision in Smith), Congress promptly passed a bill mandating accommodation for religious items to be worn with uniforms.
Balkinization 2003
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When the Supreme Court held that the military's interest in esprit de corps allowed it to keep a serviceman from wearing a yarmulke without violating the Free exercise Clause (this was before the 1990 decision in Smith), Congress promptly passed a bill mandating accommodation for religious items to be worn with uniforms.
Balkinization 2003
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Not merely were the men composing these drafts lacking largely in esprit de corps and unfamiliar with the traditions already established of the battalions into which they were drafted, but from the very fact that their original battalions had been left behind when the others went forward, they had been for some months in surroundings which did not make for high martial spirit.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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Ratzinger has much more of what the French call esprit de finesse.
"I woke up and sighed: the world was Marian" Miglior acque 2006
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Ratzinger has much more of what the French call esprit de finesse.
Archive 2006-04-01 Miglior acque 2006
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Esprit de corps and jealousy pull the truth with frightful force, this way and that, and the picture becomes the more distorted because so-called esprit de corps is nothing more than generalized selfishness.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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New officers were getting acquainted with their men; that wonderful thing that is called esprit de corps was being made all around me.
A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder 1910
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The key point I consider to be the FB integration since it allowed multi directional communication - the presenters were reading messaged from people during the event, the users could see the reaction of other users - and thus creating a momentum - an "etat d'esprit" - around the event.
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