Meaning of AFFLATUS
| Pronunciation: | | u'fleytus
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| | Definition: | | [n] a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration; "divine afflatus" |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Af*fla"tus\, n. [L., fr. afflare. See {Afflation}.]
1. A breath or blast of wind.
2. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse;
inspiration.
A poet writing against his genius will be like a
prophet without his afflatus. --Spence.
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| | Related Terms: | | animating spirit, animation, animus, apocalypse, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, creative imagination, creative thought, creativity, daemon, daimonion, demon, direct communication, divine afflatus, divine inspiration, divine revelation, enlivenment, epiphany, Erato, Euterpe, exhilaration, fire, fire of genius, firing, Geist, genius, Helicon, Hippocrene, infection, infusion, inspiration, moving spirit, Muse, mystical experience, mysticism, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, poesy, poetic genius, Polyhymnia, prophecy, revelation, soul, spirit, talent, the Muses, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty |
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