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afflatus
[ uh-fley-tuhs ]
noun
- inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
- divine communication of knowledge.
afflatus
/ əˈfleɪtəs /
noun
- an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus )
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Origin of afflatus1
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Example Sentences
He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily.
It is simply a tenaqueous bag of wind, yet it has occasionally given an impulse to the divine afflatus.
Lie 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.
So it seems that our poet drank in the divine afflatus, as it were, with his mother's milk.
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