| Front | psychopomp \SY-co-pomp\ |
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| Back | noun A guide of souls, one who escorts the soul of a newly-deceased to the afterlife. [From Greek psychopompos (conductor of souls), from psycho-, from psyche (breath, spirit, soul) + pompos (conductor, guide).] "Harold Bloom here presents himself as a mystagogue and a soothsayer, a psychopomp of our times, conducting souls into unknown territories." - Marina Warner; Where Angels Tread; The Washington Post; Sep 15, 1996. |
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