desoul

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English

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ soul.

Verb

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desoul (third-person singular simple present desouls, present participle desouling, simple past and past participle desouled)

  1. (transitive) To strip of a soul.
    • 1998, Shirley Boteler Mock, The Sowing and the Dawning, page 38:
      The crucial shared features are desouling, release of the soul from its “vessel,” and travel by transformation from one level of existence to another through a portal linking levels.
    • 2005, Robert B. Clarke, An Order Outside Time:
      [] there followed centuries of the exploration of matter that has led to the matter-worship of our modern age and the desouling of the world.

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