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Definition of Catharses
1. catharsis [n] - See also: catharsis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catharses
Literary usage of Catharses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... to successfully accomplish which is to make catharses of our lower nature and
to attain 'ull ethical maturity without arrest or perversion ; this is the ..."
2. The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer by John A. Murphy, E. B. Stevens, George Mendenhall (1864)
"But the prudent physician carefully excites vomiting after one or more gentle
nauseating doses ; or he gently excites catharses by repeated mild doses of ..."
3. The Chicago Medical Journal (1864)
"In a little more than two hours this occasioned active catharses; the first three
dejections containing only disjointed segments of the worm, ..."
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