moving spirit

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moving spirit

noun moving spirits

  1. Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc. At the beginning of the year 1804 the most formidable conspiracy which had yet threatened the government and the life of Napoleon was discovered. […] Georges Cadoudal, the Breton peasant, who was the very soul of the royalist party, was the moving spirit.

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noun provider of significant impetus or guidance

中文策划人, 倡导者
Portuguêsespírito (aventureiro, empreendedor)
Françaisâme
Deutschtreibende Kraft
Русскийдви́жущая си́ла dvížuščaja síla, душа́ де́ла dušá déla, заводи́ла zavodíla

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@misc{moving_spirit_2026,
  title = {moving spirit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moving%20spirit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}