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Meanings of afflatus in English

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Usage of afflatus in English
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The subject of the afflatus has not felt the application of fire.
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
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The expected afflatus did not seem to have arrived to lift him.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
3
Metre and rhyme, I grant you-longand short-butshow me the afflatus!
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
4
Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
Essays — First Series
5
But the stern problems of Puritanism touched two souls with the divine afflatus.
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England
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The afflatus of liberty sat upon the people as cloven tongues.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / ...
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Nothing is to be done without the divine afflatus, and plenty of it.
My Contemporaries In Fiction
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Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.
Leaves of Grass
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Body, brain, and spirit, all seemed to feel the mighty afflatus.
California Sketches, New Series
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The divine 'afflatus' is not to be caged, sir, it comes and goes.
Dawn
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A migratory afflatus seems to have come over the Ajawa tribes.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi...
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The divine afflatus has occasionally inspired in him some fine thoughts and graceful fancies.
The Parish Clerk
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There's no question of the divine afflatus; that belongs to another sphere of life.
New Grub Street
14
To this bareness some succumb, and the divine afflatus dies.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
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There was abundance of lawyer-like ability,-butof genius, and its accompanying divine afflatus, little.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
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Don't you know that the afflatus always exhausts the priestess?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 / A Magazine...
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