Meaning of dreamchildren | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The dream-children whom I would now raise⟳, if I could, before every one of you, according to your various circumstances, should be the dear child you love⟳, the dearer child you have⟳ lost, the child you might have⟳ had, the child you certainly have⟳ been. Each of these dream-children should hold⟳ in its powerful hand one of the little children now lying in the Child’s Hospital, or now shut⟳ out of it to perish. Each of these dream-children should say⟳ to you, “O, help⟳ this little suppliant in my name⟳; O, help⟳ it for my sake!””

“[…] met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dreamchildren with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.”

“Perhaps some of the dreamchildren and vision-children who never show⟳ up in this reality are members of other families that we love⟳ and belong⟳ to, elsewhere.”

“Dreamchildren are not only imaginary child characters who dream⟳; they also tend⟳ to be fantasized about by the authors of the stories in which they appear⟳.”

“She loved children, and in default of them she delighted in the poetic fiction of dreamchildren.”

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