Definition of "afflatus" []

• A strong creative impulse, especially as a result of divine inspiration. (noun)

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• "So, over and over, when we looked - when I looked up words in the dictionary, see where Whitman was in 1855, there was always some surprising interesting accuracy or some area like the word afflatus or flatus."
• "The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within."
• "He was the sum of all ambition and the centre of all importance; he was held to have achieved in the loftiest sense, and probably because he deserved to; a kind of afflatus sat upon him."