Noun: soulsearching
Sample Sentences
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There is a parallel between President Kennedy's election battlecry—"let's get America moving again"—and the soulsearching going on in Britain. [1961, “Soulsearching in Britain”, in International Management, volume 16, number 2, page 3:]
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To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home. [1992, H[enry] W[illiam] Brands, “The Bottom Line: 1927–1934”, in Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:]
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Yet there is little hint in this set of essays (formed mainly of English Catholic voices, though also receiving North American and European contributions) of the trauma or soulsearching with regard to the idea of vocation that this decline has induced in certain other contexts. [2015 July, Sam Hole, “The Disciples' Call: Theologies of Vocation from Scripture to the Present Day”, in Anglican Theological Review, volume 97, number 3:]
Nouns inflected like soulsearching
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology