2021-02-01
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – spiritual & spirituous
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง spiritual = ‘SPIR-i-choo-uhl’
ออกเสียง spirituous = ‘SPIE-i-choo-uhs’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Spiritual =
concerned with sacred or religious things;
= refined; sensitive:
She is a spiritual woman.
Not to be confused with:
spirituous = distilled, as whiskey;
= containing much alcohol:
a spirituous concoction
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group
spiritual =
A religious folk song,
generally associated with American blacks.
Spirituals became an aspect of culture in the deep South,
and many used biblical themes in their texts
to express symbolically the plight of the slaves,
their longing for freedom, and
their faith in God and a meaningful afterlife.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
spiritual & spirituous
The first of these words means “not material or physical,”
“relating to the spirit or soul”:
“Our pastors is a spiritual man,”
“His pain was more spiritual than physical,”
Spirituous means “having the nature of, containing,
alcohol produced by distillation”:
“Whiskey is a spirituous beverage.”
