Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to erethism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to erethism.
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- adjective Relating to
erethism .
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Examples
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In these children there is a state of exaltation, indeed as yet not comparable in intensity to that of the adolescent or adult, which is, nevertheless, erethistic in its nature.
A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Sanford Bell
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Many physicians have for a long time distinguished a _torpid_ and an _erethistic_ scrofulous constitution.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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In the case of _erethistic_ scrofula the children are found to be of slight and lean structure, with fine hair and long eyelashes; they are active, easily excited, gifted and extremely sensitive to physical pain.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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But between those who have been brought up together from childhood all the sensory stimuli of vision, hearing, and touch have been dulled by use, trained to the calm level of affection, and deprived of their potency to arouse the erethistic excitement which produces sexual tumescence. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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