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Examples of afflatus
afflatus
He goes at the canvas with all the afflatus of a silkworm eating its phlegmatic way across a mulberry leaf.
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Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god.
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The frequent usage of the Aeolian harp as a symbol for the poet was a play on the renewed emphasis on afflatus.
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The demolitions of old poetic constraints-inaugurated by such elitists as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound-have allowed just about any flyspecked page to masquerade as divine afflatus.
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- A strong creative impulse; divine inspiration; "divine afflatus"
- Afflatus is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods)) that has been translated as "inspiration." Cicero's usage was a literalizing of "inspiration," which had already become figurative. ...
- N. - divine breath; inspiration. afflation, n. act of breathing upon; inspiration.
