afflatus
inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
divine communication of knowledge.
Origin of afflatus
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How to use afflatus in a sentence
He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineIt is simply a tenaqueous bag of wind, yet it has occasionally given an impulse to the divine afflatus.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 | VariousLie down on the dusty shingle above high water mark, take off my hat, and abandon myself to the Divine afflatus.
The afflatus of liberty sat upon the people as cloven tongues.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 | George W. WilliamsSo it seems that our poet drank in the divine afflatus, as it were, with his mother's milk.
Vondel's Lucifer | Joost van den Vondel
British Dictionary definitions for afflatus
/ (əˈfleɪtəs) /
an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
Origin of afflatus
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