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Esprit De Corps
/ɛˌspɹi də ˈkɔɹ/
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What does Esprit De Corps mean?
noun
- A shared spirit of comradeship, enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause among the members of a group, for example of a military unit.
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/ɛˌspɹi də ˈkɔɹ/
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Before you know where you are you will have exchanged the spirit of God for ESPRIT DE CORPS.
Esprit de corps and jealousy pull the truth with frightful force, this way and that, and the picture becomes the more distorted because so-called esprit de corps is nothing more than generalized selfishness.
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As I was never recognized as 'a cadet and a gentleman,' I could not enjoy that blessed privilege of swearing 'upon my honor,' boasting of my share in the esprit de corps, nor of concealing my sins by taking advantage of them.
The 'esprit de corps' might have prompted the immediate followers of the offender to have seized upon their weapons, and, though annihilated, as Horry tells us they would have been, yet several valuable lives might have been lost, which the country could ill have spared.
It is scarcely necessary to say that a real flag and drum add much to the martial spirit of the game, and if each soldier can have a stick or wand over his shoulder for a gun, the esprit de corps will be proportionately enhanced.