PSYCHE in a Sentence

Learn PSYCHE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PSYCHE, below is one of 6 sentences:
But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.

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 Meanings and Examples of PSYCHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
psyche
 n.  soul; mind; spirit or soul
Classic Sentence:
1  Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  It was the wound to his psyche coming out.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  I think my psyche is a contradictory mixture of adventurism and contemplative caution.
2  The day the US company announced its exit would be forever ingrained in the local psyche.
3  A characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek approval from others.