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Holy Ghost Definition

Holy Ghost

noun

Holy Spirit

Etymology: ME haligast, transl. of LL(Ec) Spiritus sanctus

Holy Ghost Synonyms

Holy Ghost

n.

Holy Spirit, the Dove, third person of the Holy Trinity; see god 2, trinity 2.

Holy Ghost Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • darts: Bobby ' Mr Glitter ' George Small Talk talks holy ghost with darts ' Mr Glitter.

Adjective modifier

  • old: A bit of stand at ease on the old holy ghost [ laughs ] .
Holy Ghost Quotes

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

—Bible (NewTestament)

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat uponeach ofthem. And they wereall filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Have yereceived the Holy Ghost sinceye believed? And they said unto him,We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

—Bible (NewTestament)

It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which St John the Father hath put in his own power.But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

And I believe in the Holy Ghost,The Lord and giver of life,Who proceedeth fromthe Father and Son,Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified,Who spake by the Prophets.

—Book of Common Prayer

The varnishers and veneerers have been busily converting Abe into a plaster saint†to pump all his human weaknesses out of him, and so leave him a mere moral apparition, a sort of amalgam of John Wesley and the Holy Ghost.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.

—Butler,Joseph

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

—Bible (NewTestament)