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Definition of Erethisms
1. erethism [n] - See also: erethism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erethisms
Literary usage of Erethisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"1 think, in fact, that it is second in power to none, except tartar emetic and
opium in asthénie erethisms (such as that of delirium ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"... erethisms are perhaps the only producers of devotion and sacrifice, which
still, as in phallic times, imply a reference to death. ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... it has served its purpose, while work with intensity is necessary so that
erethisms and second breath may be had both in physical and mental activity. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"... draw the following conclusions : Lupulin possesses a remarkable effect upon
the genital organs ; the erethisms were quieted in four-fifths of the cases. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"... and that the use of the bicycle has the slightest tendency injuriously to
affect morals by sensuous erethisms or orgasms is most conclusively refuted by ..."
6. The Adolescent Girl: A Study from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (1920)
"... since at the same time that we are establishing the habit of sublimation and
developing the higher neural erethisms to their utmost limit, ..."
7. Studies in the Psychology of Intermperance by George Everett Partridge (1912)
"Thus the sexual erethisms, intoxication states of various kinds, excitement of
play, states of second breath, ecstasy, religious fervour, social intensity, ..."
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