nympholepsy 的定义
plural nym·pho·lep·sies.
- an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- a frenzy of emotion, as for something unattainable.
更多nympholepsy例句
- Through solitude this passion may be exalted into a frenzy like a nympholepsy.
- But he was busy with his new story, in the throes of nympholepsy, seeing visions, hearing voices.
- When the show was over he abandoned Miss Clampett on her door-step and went to his own boarding-house in a nympholepsy.
- Nympholepsy is no more a Greek word than epilepsy, and nobody would or could object to epilepsy or apoplexy as a Greek word.
- It shows the sensitiveness of the hierarchy that this harmless nympholepsy was deemed worthy of severe repression.