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Vitalis may refer to:
- Saint Vitalis (disambiguation), various people and places
- Vitalis of Farfa, abbot circa 889
- Orderic Vitalis (1075–circa 1142), English chronicler and Benedictine monk
- Vangelis Vitalis (born 1969), New Zealand diplomat
- Nightcrawlers, a type of worm in North America
- Vitalis, A hair tonic formerly made by Bristol-Myers
Usage examples of "vitalis".
Left to themselves, the growing passion of Marie Boyer for Vitalis culminated in her surrender.
By this time Marie and Vitalis had become friendly enough to arrange to correspond clandestinely during the girl's absence from home.
At the time of his death she was carrying on an intrigue with a bookseller's assistant, Leon Vitalis, a young man of twenty-one.
Her bed ridden husband, ignorant of her infidelity, accepted gratefully the help of Vitalis, whom his wife described as a relative, in the regulation of his affairs.
Mean and significant in appearance, Vitalis would seem to have been one of those men who, without any great physical recommendation, have the knack of making themselves attractive to women.
Marie was so far ignorant of the relations of Vitalis with her mother.
Whether from the utter recklessness of her passion for Vitalis, or a desire to kill in her daughter's heart any attachment which she may have felt towards her lover, the mother paraded openly before her daughter the intimacy of her relations with Vitalis, and with the help of the literature with which the young bookseller supplied her, set about corrupting her child's mind to her own depraved level.
But in her heart she did not blame Vitalis for what she saw and suffered.
Madame Boyer's deliberate display of her passion for Vitalis served only to aggravate and intensify in Marie Boyer an unnatural jealousy that was fast growing up between mother and daughter.
As Marie and Vitalis were the only persons who could have known her secret, the inference is obvious.
When, later in the year, Vitalis announced his intention of going to Paris on business, his mistress expressed to him the hope that he would "have a good time" with her bonds.
She realised the duplicity of her lover, she knew that he meant to desert her for her daughter, she saw what wrong she had done that daughter, she suspected even that Marie and Vitalis were poisoning her.
Try as he might, Vitalis had found it impossible to sell the shops at anything but a worthless figure.
To Vitalis dismissal meant ruin, to Marie it meant the loss of her lover.
Providence or Nature having refused to assist Vitalis, he resolved to fall back on art.