divine afflatus
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Afflatus
//əˈfleɪtəs//
Synonyms for "afflatus" (61 found)
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14 translations across 9 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- إلْهَام noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
- وَحْي noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܣܘܩܐ noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вдъхновение noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Galician
1 entries- inspiración noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Greek
1 entries- έμπνευση noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- الهام noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Polish
3 entries- inspiracja noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
- natchnienie noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
- wena noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Spanish
2 entries- aflato noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
- inspiración noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
Turkish
2 entries- ilham noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
- vahiy noun (sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration)
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9 total sentences available.
'Tis extremely difficult to keep up the Spirit of Poetry in another's Compoſitions, tho' you catch all the […] apteſt Moments; and never employ the Mind, but when there is an Impetus comes upon it toward that particular buſineſs: […] I know not how far this was the Caſe with Mr. [Alexander] Pope, in this performance: but wherever it was, the Poet will be little more than a common Man: He is, at ſuch times, much the ſame as a Prophet without his Afflatus.
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[…] Men acted by seducing spirits: for πνεύματα doth often signify the impulses or afflatuses of good or evil spirits; […] You are zealous, πνευματων, of spiritual gifts, or afflatuses, and so throughout the chapter; […]
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He used to gallop Rebecca over the neighbouring Dumpling Downs, or into the county town, which, if you please, we shall call Chatteris, spouting his own poems, and filled with quite a Byronic afflatus as he thought.
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