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Definition of Nympholeptic
1. a. Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.
Definition of Nympholeptic
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to, or having characteristics of an instance of nympholepsy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nympholeptic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nympholeptic
Literary usage of Nympholeptic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"... 1 hope you acquit me—and I hope you will not carry delicacy so far as to let
this suppress anything nympholeptic. 1 The reference is of course to Childe ..."
2. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"Man the fleshly marvel always feels a certain kind of awe stick To the skirts of
contemplation, cramped with nympholeptic weight; Feels his faint sense ..."
3. The Masters of Modern French Criticism by Irving Babbitt (1912)
"... his own nostalgia and nympholeptic longings, or when rendering suggestively
the aspects of outer nature (these moods are of course often blended). ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1832)
"... sort of nympholeptic indulgence, arising probably out of some girlish
recollections of a story book, in which some jester of the olden time figured as ..."
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