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Meaning: (idiomatic)A sharedspiritofcomradeship,enthusiasm, anddevotionto acauseamong the members of a group, for example of a military unit.1814May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, inMansfield Park:[…], volume I, London:[…][George Sidney]forT[homas]Egerton,[…],→OCLC,page94:“Well done, sister! I honour youresprit du corps[sic]. When I am a wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in general would be so too. It would save me many a heartache.”1922February,James Joyce, “[Episode 5:Lotus Eaters]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC, part II[Odyssey],page71:Always happening like that. The very moment. Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it settling her garter. Her friend covering the display of.Esprit de corps. Well, what are you gaping at?1946May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, inRailway Magazine, page135:Also, much depended on an exceptionalesprit de corpswhich permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains.
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