nympholepts

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With the nympholepts of Truth we have nought to do.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

The nympholepts of Truth are profoundly interesting figures in the world's history, but their lives are melancholy reading, and seldom fail to raise a crop of gloomy thoughts.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

I am one of those nympholepts, you know, nympholepts … Must pursue the truth of things! the elusive fundamental … I make a rule, I never tell myself lies—never.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

We are all nympholepts in running after our ideals—and none more than yourself, indeed!

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

In Dostoievsky's books, madmen, idiots, drunkards, consumptives, degenerates, visionaries, reactionaries, anarchists, nympholepts, criminals and saints jostle one another in a sort of "Danse Macabre," but not one of them but has his moment of ecstasy.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper