spirituals
- 1Plural of spiritual.
The concert closed with a moving set of spirituals from the nineteenth century.
Many spirituals carried coded messages for enslaved people seeking a route to freedom.
Note
A plural that only the noun can take, since the adjective spiritual never adds -s. Most often it names the songs: Christian religious songs, especially in an African-American style, gathered as a repertoire, as in a set of spirituals or a program of spirituals. The same plural also covers spiritual affairs or offices. In historical writing it names the members of a Franciscan branch who renounced property and dressed simply.
spirituals is a form of spiritual
spiritual, noun: A Christian religious song, especially one in the African-American tradition, or a similar song without religious content. Full entry
- Forms
- spiritualspirituals plural
- Spelling
- spiritual → spirituals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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