[transl. of Ger. Zeitgeist.] The spirit of the time, the genius of the age.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. ix. To me, in this our life … which is an internecine warfare with the Time-spirit, other warfare seems questionable.
1873. M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma (1876), p. xxi. To say that the Church-dogmas of his time … on which the Time-Spirit had not then turned his light, were false developments.
1880. T. Hodgkin, Italy & Inv., III. ix. II. 547. One is disposed to look the present Time-Spirit boldly in the face and ask why it … must be infallible and eternal.
