The Clue
Music often rendered by Odetta (9 letter answer)
The Answer
SPIRITUAL
Tags
Notes
The answer SPIRITUAL is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
SPIRITUAL as a noun:
1. (spiritual, Negro spiritual) = a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
SPIRITUAL as an adjective:
1. (religious, spiritual) = concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
2. (spiritual, unearthly) = concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
3. lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
4. (apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual) = resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"