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Definition of Illapses
1. illapse [v] - See also: illapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illapses
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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