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Definition of Nympholepts
1. nympholept [n] - See also: nympholept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nympholepts
Literary usage of Nympholepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Essays by Augustine Birrell (1902)
"The second exception is of those who pursue Truth as by a divine compulsion, and
who can be likened only to the nympholepts of old; those unfortunates who, ..."
2. The Mechanism of English Style by Lewis Worthington Smith (1916)
"With the nympholepts of Truth we have nought to do. ... 35 But there are not many
nympholepts. The symptoms of 16-22 : b, i. 22, 23 : b, w. 24-27 : b. ..."
3. Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell (1888)
"With the nympholepts of Truth we have nought to do. ... But there are not many
nympholepts. The symptoms of the great majority of our modern Truth-hunters ..."
4. Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell, George Heynes Radford (1885)
"With the nympholepts of Truth we have nought to do. ... But there are not many
nympholepts. The symptoms of the great majority of our modern Truth-hunters ..."
5. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1897)
"We are all nympholepts in running after our ideals — and none more than yourself,
indeed ! Our American friend Mr. Jarves wrote to us full of gratitude and ..."
6. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys (1915)
"... 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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