Definition of Illapses

1. Noun. (plural of illapse) ¹

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Definition of Illapses

1. illapse [v] - See also: illapse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illapses

ill manners
ill nature
ill repute
ill service
ill stound
ill temper
ill timed(p)
ill turn
ill will
ill willed
ill wills
illabile
illapsable
illapse
illapsed
illapses (current term)
illapsing
illaqueable
illaqueation
illaqueations
illation
illations
illative
illative case
illative cases
illatively
illatives
illaudable
illaudably
illderly

Literary usage of Illapses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Communistic Societies of the United States: From Personal Visit and by Charles Nordhoff (1875)
"... effusions of devotion, and supernatural illapses of which I was for fifteen years at intervals an eye and ear witness. Also the exposure of sin, ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"In private life he was beloved and revered by his friends and domestics. He was subject to the illapses of melancholy and ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"instructed teachers, whose hearts and understandings were estranged and debased by the illapses of the wildest enthusiasm, the liberty of the people \Vas ..."

4. An Historical and Critical Dictionary by Pierre Bayle (1826)
"God, who is that center, makes the soul feel him by divine touches, by a taste, by illapses, by unspeakable ..."

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