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[edit]Noun
[edit]soulsearch (countable and uncountable, plural soulsearches)
- Alternative form of soul-search
- 1973, Duncan MacRae, Symposium on interdisciplinary approaches to policy studies, page 35:
- Since its theoretical/quantitative revolution of the late fifties, geography is now undergoing another general soulsearch, usually termed the "social/spatial justice" approach.
- 1989, The International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, page 97:
- After having done a soulsearch regarding the role computers have to play in chemical and metallurgical undergraduate training, we at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Stellenbosch arrived at similar conclusions as those given by Evans.
- 1992, West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, WAACLALS lecture series, page 40:
- Femi Taiwo, my companion for this season of soulsearch, is still looking for someone who could relieve him of his brains.
- 2017, Lutgard Mutsaers, Gert Keunen, Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music:
- He ingeniously concocted original and memorable tunes that perfectly suited his endearing and challenging stories, observations, brainwaves, and soulsearches, holding the mirror to himself and his listeners.
Verb
[edit]soulsearch (third-person singular simple present soulsearches, present participle soulsearching, simple past and past participle soulsearched)
- Alternative form of soul-search
- 1992, Marie Christine N. Bantug, Hugot sa sinapupunan, page 43:
- I soulsearched for a long time. I sought out my spiritual adviser — a dear old nun from college.
- 1999, Trish Maskew, Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child, page 61:
- We try to get parents to read, talk to others, learn developmental issues and then really soulsearch, but most learn the hard way.
- 2004, Poet - Volume 45, page 60:
- As a poet with taste and sensibility and "growing old gracefully", she "soulsearches for feel of things. "