alexin
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of alexin
1890–95; < Greek aléx ( ein ) to ward off + -in 2
Example Sentences
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The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds in his possession, if only for an instant, the alexin of his cure: the saving grace of the spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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