titillation

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And as in the church itself, the titillation is an opener for Calvinism - the kind of fundamentalism that says we are all utterly depraved, doomed to eternal torture - except that the God of Calvin has chosen a lucky inside group for salvation.

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  1. The act of titillating, or the state of being titillated; a tickling or itching sensation or state of feeling; hence, a passing or momentary excitation, physical or mental. A poor auricular transient titillation. Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 166. The vulgar intellectual palate hankers after the titillation of foaming phrase. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 281.
  2. That which titillates; something having titillating properties. [Rare.] Your Spanish titillation in a glove The best perfume. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 2.

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  • This makes for an erotically lush comic, but before you condemn it as crass titillation, ask yourself what you would choose if you could design your own body Ghost in the Shell, the movie Ghost in the Shell was adapted to film in 1995 by director Mamoru Oshii. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • The level of titillation was actually very slight; I don't remember that I was even brushed against accidentally by a naked comrade, and I'm sure no one ever commented to me about my body, although someone once evaluated me for Adam. —  Secret Ceremonies
  • Does a man hang such a painting in his morning room for the titillation of his friends? —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
  • Decked out in that bum-freezing bit of titillation, with hair gilded and frizzed and starched to a standard any medieval Florentine light-skirt would have envied! —  EQMM,February2008
  • A private titillation is another matter, but the rites of Naamah are open to all her servants. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
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  1. from French titillation =Provencal titillacio =Spanish titilacion =Portuguese titillação =Italian titillazione, from Latin titillatio (n-), a tickling, from titillare, past participle titillatus, tickle: see titillate.
 

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