ensoulment

English

Etymology

From ensoul +‎ -ment.

Noun

ensoulment (countable and uncountable, plural ensoulments)

  1. (philosophy, religion) The act or process of ensouling; the endowment of a developing human being with a soul.
    • 2024, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower Than the Angels, Penguin, published 2025, page 410:
      Western Christians supplemented scientific authority with the consideration that it was not appropriate for ensoulment to accompany the original sin that was inevitably part of conception […] .
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