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2. Noun. (plural of séance) ¹

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Definition of Seances

1. seance [n] - See also: seance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seances

Literary usage of Seances

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

1. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1900)
"THE seances Mlle. Smith has never been hypnotized. ... All her seances have somewhat of the same psychologic form, the same method of development running ..."

2. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1900)
"THE seances Mlle. Smith has never been hypnotized. In her instinctive aversion, which she shares ... All her seances have somewhat of the same psychologic ..."

3. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1901)
"THE seances Mlle. Smith has never been hypnotized. ... All her seances have somewhat of the same psychologic form, the same method of development running ..."

4. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research, Edmund Gurney (1890)
"NOTES OF seances WITH DD HOME. BY WILLIAM CROOKES, FRS In the year 1874 I published in a collected form various papers, dating from 1870 to 1874, ..."

5. People from the Other World by Henry Steel Olcott (1875)
"He declared, among other things, that the apartment was to be used solely for spiritual seances, with the occasional exception of a quiet dance. ..."

6. Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism by Frank Podmore (1902)
"So early as the autumn of 1849, indeed, Capron and Barron, in their History? record a series of seances, with Mrs.Tamlin apparently as chief medium.though ..."

7. Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism by Frank Podmore (1902)
"So early as the autumn of 1849, indeed, Capron and Barron, in their History? record a series of seances, with Mrs.Tamlin apparently as chief medium, ..."

8. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1837)
"... (from Comptes rendus Hebdomadaires des seances de 1' Academic des Sciences, 23 Janvier 1837.) Connected with the mechanism of the motion of arteries, ..."

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