in spirit
Meaning
Non-physically; in one's thoughts only.
I can't make it to the party, but I'll be there in spirit.
In mood or manner.
The newer works differ from the older ones in spirit.
Examples
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Those people who are close in spirit are drawn to one another.