A terrible malady is she, a malady the ancients knew of and called nympholepsy -- a beautiful name evocative and symbolic of its ideal aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Young Man] Reference

The word we want is "nympholepsy", which doesn't quite mean what you think it means.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

It is this repetition—not the nympholepsy itself, but the endless recurrence of its self-imprisoning instants—that eventually dooms and destroys Humbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

The beautiful name of their malady was nympholepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

Through solitude this passion may be exalted into a frenzy like a nympholepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

But he was busy with his new story, in the throes of nympholepsy, seeing visions, hearing voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

As such, nympholepsy is a legitimate, indeed an almost inevitable subject for this very singular talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The most common disease to genius is nympholepsy -- the saddening for a spirit that the world knows not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

Sandro was, by a nympholepsy, or, as Lorenzo was, by the rhymer's appetite for wherewithal to sonnetteer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference

In Ada nabobism disastrously combines with a nympholepsy that is lavishly, monotonously, and frictionlessly gratified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

When the show was over he abandoned Miss Clampett on her door-step and went to his own boarding-house in a nympholepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

But they are not left to themselves; by sheer weight of numbers, by sheer iteration, the nympholepsy novels begin to infect one another - they cross-contaminate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

With the later Nabokov, though, nympholepsy crumbles into its etymology - "from Gk numpholeptos 'caught by nymphs', on the pattern of EPILEPSY"; "from Gk epilepsia, from epilambanein 'seize, attack'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The authors of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution find roots in Foucault’s theories for his Islamofascist nympholepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stromata Blog:] Reference

No, what has caught my attention is the degree to which Polanski’s defenders are unconsciously repeating the involved and sophisticated defense of his “nympholepsy” offered by Humbert Humbert, who did his imitation of Polanski back in the ’fifties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Mrs. Trollope, you may have heard, had something of the same nympholepsy ” no, her daughter was 'settled' in the neighbourhood ” that is the more likely reason for Mrs. Trollope! and the spirits of the hills conspired against her the first winter and almost slew her with a fog and drove her away to your Italy where the Oreadocracy has gentler manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]

As the wayworn traveller who on some bright day sat down by the fringed bank of clear fountain or silver lake, and while he leant to look into its waters, was suddenly dazzled into madness by the flashing upwards upon him, from the unknown depths, of some startling image; so Bruce, as he rested by the dusty wayside of life, and gazed into the dark abysses of recollection, was startled and horrified, with a more fearful nympholepsy, by the crowding images and sullen glare of unforgotten and half-forgotten sins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Home] Reference

  The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

Reply nympholepsy | March 10, 2005 at 6: 07 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [sadists write three hour tragic musicals « Magic Lantern Arts] Reference

Reply nympholepsy | March 10, 2005 at 6: 19 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [sadists write three hour tragic musicals « Magic Lantern Arts] Reference

The obit ends with this quote from his introduction to one of his books, which makes for a nice impromptu vocabulary test: "This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com] Reference

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpts from _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_] Reference

QUOTATION: The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

95The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

5662The nympholepsy of some fond despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

"Dear CNN: please report about Iran, not Twitter. #cnnfail #iranelection," a user by the name of nympholepsy wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salon] Reference

Despair, black, 564. conscience wakes, 231. depth of some divine, 630. fiercer by, 226. from hope and from, 340. hurried question of, 550. nympholepsy of some fond, 546. of getting out, 180. our final hope is flat, 226. shall I wasting in, 199. that slumbered, 231. the message of, 513. where reason would, 377. where seraphs might, 540. wrath and infinite, 231.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference