soulsearch

plural soulsearches

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of soul-search.

   Femi Taiwo, my companion for this season of soulsearch, is still looking for someone who could relieve him of his brains.

   1992, West African Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, WAACLALS lecture series, page 40

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   Since its theoretical/quantitative revolution of the late fifties, geography is now undergoing another general soulsearch, usually termed the "social/spatial justice" approach.

   1973, Duncan MacRae, Symposium on interdisciplinary approaches to policy studies, page 35

   After having done a soulsearch regarding the role computers have to play in chemical and metallurgical undergraduate training, we at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Stellenbosch arrived at similar conclusions as those given by Evans.

   1989, The International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, page 97

   He ingeniously concocted original and memorable tunes that perfectly suited his endearing and challenging stories, observations, brainwaves, and soulsearches, holding the mirror to himself and his listeners.

   2017, Lutgard Mutsaers, Gert Keunen, Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music

present singular third person soulsearches · participle present soulsearching · participle past soulsearched · past soulsearched

1. alternativeAlternative form of soul-search.

   I soulsearched for a long time. I sought out my spiritual adviser — a dear old nun from college.

   1992, Marie Christine N. Bantug, Hugot sa sinapupunan, page 43

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   We try to get parents to read, talk to others, learn developmental issues and then really soulsearch, but most learn the hard way.

   1999, Trish Maskew, Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child, page 61

   As a poet with taste and sensibility and "growing old gracefully", she "soulsearches for feel of things. "

   2004, Poet - Volume 45, page 60