"spiritling" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "spirit + -ling",
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  "etymology_text": "From spirit + -ling.",
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      "form": "spiritlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Carl Gilchrist, Angel Leigh McCoy, EverQuest Role-Playing Game Monsters of Norrath",
          "text": "Spiritlings are tiny fey creatures no bigger than half an inch across that inhabit various wild places throughout Norrath.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, James Lowder, Prince of Lies",
          "text": "“The denizens do not share your valor, spiritling. They will surely lose their minds if they're confronted with the nightmares from their mortal lives.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Prospero in Hell: Prospero's Daughter",
          "text": "“You would risk Father's great work for this spiritling?” Cornelius asked. “This spiritling, as you call him, is Father's great work!” I blurted.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A small, young, diminutive, or inferior spirit; a ghostling."
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          "ghostling",
          "ghostling"
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  "word": "spiritling"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "spirit",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spirit + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spiritlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Carl Gilchrist, Angel Leigh McCoy, EverQuest Role-Playing Game Monsters of Norrath",
          "text": "Spiritlings are tiny fey creatures no bigger than half an inch across that inhabit various wild places throughout Norrath.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, James Lowder, Prince of Lies",
          "text": "“The denizens do not share your valor, spiritling. They will surely lose their minds if they're confronted with the nightmares from their mortal lives.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Prospero in Hell: Prospero's Daughter",
          "text": "“You would risk Father's great work for this spiritling?” Cornelius asked. “This spiritling, as you call him, is Father's great work!” I blurted.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small, young, diminutive, or inferior spirit; a ghostling."
      ],
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          "ghostling",
          "ghostling"
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