Meaning of nympholept | Babel Free

Definitions

A person in a state of nympholepsy.

Examples

“Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept.”

“"I don't mind⟳ young nympholepts, but I draw⟳ the line at a paint-raddled old bitch of - " He had not noticed Rita, hidden in the big leather chair with its back to him, but as she moved to look⟳ round at him, he arrested his whisky at the moment of tossing it off to say⟳ "Oh, sorry, Grimsby, I didn't know⟳ you had a visitor."”

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