English

Verb

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.