2. Adjective. inspired ¹
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Definition of Afflated
1. inspired [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afflated
Literary usage of Afflated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"What also if there is an afflated style,—when a writer is like a Pythoness on
her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"The minstrel harp, for the strained string? the tripod, for the afflated Woe?
or the vision, for those tears in which it shone dilated? ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"What also if there ie an afflated style ; when a writer is like a Pythoness, or
her oracle tripod, and mighty words—words which he cannot help, come blowing ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"In like manner, the imagination foretells things. We spake anon of the inflated
style of some writers. What also if there is an afflated style,—when a ..."
5. Spare Hours by John Brown (1866)
"... How the dickens did he come to think of that ? . . . We spake anon of the
inflated style of some writers. What also if there is an afflated style ..."
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