nympholept
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nympholept
1805–15; < Greek nymphólēptos caught by nymphs, equivalent to nýmph ( ē ) nymph + -o- -o- + lḗptos, verbid of lambánein to seize
Example Sentences
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand; Of her own past, impassioned nympholept!
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In Dostoievsky's books, madmen, idiots, drunkards, consumptives, degenerates, visionaries, reactionaries, anarchists, nympholepts, criminals and saints jostle one another in a sort of "Danse Macabre," but not one of them but has his moment of ecstasy.
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It has no aim of imitating springtime noises, but seeks to stimulate by suggestion the hearer's creative imagination, and provoke by a musical telepathy the emotions that swayed the nympholept composer.
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We are all nympholepts in running after our ideals—and none more than yourself, indeed!
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I am one of those nympholepts, you know, nympholepts … Must pursue the truth of things! the elusive fundamental … I make a rule, I never tell myself lies—never.
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