"geist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1877, The spiritual magazine:",
          "text": "The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.",
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          "text": "Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.",
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          "ref": "1996, Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects:",
          "text": "[...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldview.",
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          "text": "The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.",
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          "ref": "1976, Colorado lawyer - Volume 5 (Law), Colorado Bar Association, page 1640:",
          "text": "However, the geist of the times following the World War was the \"normalcy\" of Warren G. Harding.",
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          "ref": "1995, Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism:",
          "text": "[...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.",
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          "ref": "2009 October 13, Adam Curtis, Lee Ravitz (comment), “Kabul: City Number One - Part 3”, in BBC:",
          "text": "... particular 'culture areas' of the world are dominated by their own peculiar geist or 'cultural soul' ...",
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