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afflatus
noun as in inspiration
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He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily.
It is simply a tenaqueous bag of wind, yet it has occasionally given an impulse to the divine afflatus.
Lie down on the dusty shingle above high water mark, take off my hat, and abandon myself to the Divine Afflatus.
The afflatus of liberty sat upon the people as cloven tongues.
So it seems that our poet drank in the divine afflatus, as it were, with his mother's milk.
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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afflatus, such as: encouragement, enthusiasm, genius, incentive, influence, and insight.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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