afflatus

• She watched him with folded hands, like a mystic worshipper, waiting for the afflatus of the spirit; and, suspicious and angry as I felt towards her, I could not help being drawn to her by this revelation of depths of strong healthy feeling, of which her usual manner gave so little sign. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Miss Corelli tells hers with the voice and manner of a Boanerges.. Nothing is to be done without the divine afflatus, and plenty of it. —  My Contemporaries In Fiction
• The divine afflatus is in his nostrils; it is his spirit, and his picture is the reflex of his soul. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Loose in structure, copious in diction, swarming with imagery, these Odes gave ample scope for Lowell's swift gush of patriotic fervor, for the afflatus of the improviser, steadied by reverence for America's historic past. —  Modern American Prose Selections
• (2) Similarly, the divine afflatus was, from the first, constantly designated as the "Paraclete" (Orac. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)

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