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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supposed undulation of a hypothetical medium of thought-transference, assumed to account for the phenomena of telepathy.
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Examples
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When we first learned to communicate with each other, you told me that my thought-wave pattern was different from that of your race, which was natural enough, as you finally realized.
Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965
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As he had mentioned to Boss, he had managed to disentangle the cerebral radiations corresponding to a few simple line patterns, as received by the human eyes and symbolized in the brain; and he received, coincidentally with the vocal sounds, a thought-wave which he could translate easily into a series of just such patterns.
Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965
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"They are welcome," came the thought-wave of one of the Engineers.
The Cosmic Engineer Simak, Clifford D. 1950
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They halted before a massive door and the Engineer sounded a high-pitched thought-wave that beat fantastically against their minds.
The Cosmic Engineer Simak, Clifford D. 1950
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So he had to devise an instrument that would act, in a sense, like a mirror and respond -- not to the broadcast thought-wave -- he says that is impossible, because of confusion -- but to the reaction set up in the brain of the recipient.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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A so-called dynamic man is merely one adjusted by temperament or training to a certain sort of thought-wave, or energy-wave, or whatever you like to call it.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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And even if that whole year resulted in nothing more than a "Skylark," or a "Rabbi Ben Ezra," or a "Crossing the Bar" -- could one possibly consider such a result in the same thought-wave with dollars and cents?
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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Robert, still under the influence of her thought-wave, solemnly drove her from the scene.
Fran 1913
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_) -- The Theosophists talk mistily about "the concentration of mind-force on a thought-wave" -- which seems only another way of saying that such minds are, at the time, "quite at sea."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Various
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And by ze thought-wave will I tell it, letter by letter. "
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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