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Citations:effuscation

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English citations of effuscation

  • 1814, Dialogues Between a Pilgrim, Adam, Noah, and Simon Cleophas [...] originally translated from the Dutch (printed at Leeds by Davies and Booth):
    This supernatural effuscation of the sun struck the bystanders with exceeding consternation, some beating their breasts, [...]
  • 1921, George Santayana, Little Essays, page 192:
    It is then supposed that what serves no further purpose can have no value, and that he who suffers no effuscation can have no feeling and no life. To attain an ideal seems to destroy its worth.