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A strong creative impulse
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afflatus
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Wikipedia
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is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in (The Nature of the Gods)) that has been translated as "inspiration." Cicero's usage was a literalizing of "inspiration," which had already become figurative. As "inspiration" came to mean simply the gathering of a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"miraculous communication of supernatural knowledge," 1660s, from Latin afflatus "a breathing upon, blast," from past participle of afflare "to blow upon," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + flare "to blow" (see blow (v.1)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afflatus \Af*fla"tus\, n. [L., fr. afflare. See Afflation .] A breath or blast of wind. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. --Spence.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration; "divine afflatus"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence. 2 A breath or blast of wind.
Usage examples of afflatus.
Beside all this, Roderic had had communicated to him, by a supernatural afflatus, that wondrous art, as yet unknown in the plains of Albion, of turning up the soil with a share of iron, and scattering it with a small quantity of those grains which are most useful to man, to expect to gather, after a short interval, a forty-fold increase.
It was now that there descended upon Nanty an afflatus of which he was half ashamed.
They rode over a little stone bridge above the water-wheel and through the woods, until Nell could hear the faint afflatus of the security aerostats.
His cause was an anchor to keep him steady, but it could not give this perpetual afflatus of spirit like a May morning.
The divine afflatus left him like air oozing from a punctured toy-balloon, and, like such a balloon, he seemed to grow suddenly limp and flat.
To control this disagreeable symptom, the candidates for both species of afflatus used to come to their meetings provided with napkins and rollers with which to bind their middles, and prevent the supervening inflation.
If union with such an Absolute is to be enjoyed, the will must be pulseless, the intellect atrophied, the whole soul inactive: otherwise the introduction of finite thoughts and desires inhibits the divine afflatus!
Her afflatus, divinely sweet, divinely powerful, is breathed on every human heart, and inspires every soul to some nobler sentiment, some higher thought, some greater action.
With a sense of afflatus, of pregnant illumination, he wristily typed pl.