Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, a digression.
- noun In Greek music, the raising or sharping of a tone: opposed to eclysis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rhetoric A
digression in which a person is introduced speaking his or her own words. - noun The point at which a
male 'ssex drive is at itspeak , supposed to be dictated by a naturalcycle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professor of Biology at the Rutgers College of Agriculture, New Brunswick, published a study of dreams in which he recorded the results of detailed observations of his dreams, and also of seminal emissions during sleep (by him termed "gonekbole" or "ecbole"), during a period of something over two years.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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The climax of maximum dreaming (as determined by the number of words in the dream record) and the climax of maximum ecbole fell at the same point of the cycle, the ecbolic climax being more distinctly marked than the dream climax.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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There is the period of tumescence, and the ecbole constituting the detumescence.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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E. M.'s curves frequently show the influence of weekly periodicity, in the tendency to ecbole on Sunday, or sometimes on
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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