lost soul
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Noun
lost soul (plural lost souls)
- (set phrase, religion) A soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ch. 11:
- "Well, I won't repeat my offer of a wife: it is as bad as offering Satan a lost soul."
- 1869, Charles Kingsley, The Hermits, ch. 11:
- St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ch. 11:
- (idiomatic) One who is forlorn, who lacks direction, purpose, or motivation in life.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, ch. 10:
- Of course she stopped paying her dues to the union. She lost all interest in the union. . . . She had about made up her mind that she was a lost soul.
- 1946 Oct. 7, "Books: The Fall of Valor," Time (retrieved 5 May 2015):
- Charles Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, ch. 10:
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a soul or person destined to go to hell
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a person lacking direction or motivation in life
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