Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, belonging to, or possessed by nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied; transported.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Poetic Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, or having characteristics of an instance of
nympholepsy .
Etymologies
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nympho- + -leptic
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Examples
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I can't; I knew her as a lover, you see, and Dick Burton assures me I'm a hopeless nympholeptic, which sounds, good fun.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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I can't; I knew her as a lover, you see, and Dick Burton assures me I'm a hopeless nympholeptic, which sounds, good fun.
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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To the skirts of contemplation, cramped with nympholeptic weight:
The Heptalogia Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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The nympholeptic theme thus hovers over the story, and is reinforced, in one extraordinary scene, by the disclosure of Hugh's latent yearnings.
The Guardian World News Martin Amis 2009
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