Crossword-Solution: AFFLATUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Afflatus | n. | A breath or blast of wind. |
| Afflatus | n. | A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “AFFLATUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inspiration, as of an artist, poet, etc. | 1 answer |
| divine inspiration | 1 answer |
| poetic inspiration | 6 answers |
| BEATIFIC VISION | 11 answers |
| illumination | 29 answers |
| Imagination | 38 answers |
| AIR in motion | 47 answers |
| Impulse | 52 answers |
| Inspiration | 71 answers |
| Fury | 74 answers |
| Animation | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AFFLATUS (5)
With voices of the storm, possessed by some divine afflatus, thundering out verses of fire—carried out of themselves in a whirlwind of passion, like antique prophets and Sibyls foretelling the misfortunes of the world! That night will remain immutably fixed in my memory, if I live to be as old as the theatre itself.
Many years ago the Judge was compelled to resort to every kind of artifice in order to sneak new books into his house, and had he not been imbued with the true afflatus of bibliomania he would long ago have broken down under the heartless tyranny of his vindictive spouse.
The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her ‘vortex’, hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.
But if we pause to consider that the commercial subdivision of the electric current (which was virtually an invention made to order) involved the solution of problems so unprecedented that even they themselves had to be created, we cannot but conclude that the afflatus of innate genius played an important part in the unique methods of investigation instituted by Edison at that and other times.
The attention of the young man was taken exclusively by a picture destined to become famous after those days of tumult and revolution, and which even then was precious in the sight of certain opinionated individuals to whom we owe the preservation of the divine afflatus through the dark days when the life of art was in jeopardy.
Quotes with AFFLATUS (2)
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Like the pigeons of St. Mark's, theywere everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder or pecking a broken biscuit from bet…
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).