Wouldn't "nympholept" be a good word to see more of around the place, by the way?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LIMERENT.] Reference
Thanks to it -- all thanks to it -- I did not become a nympholept. From Wordnik.com. [Lore of Proserpine] Reference
I said that any remark of yours was to be received by me in all reverence; and truth is a part of reverence, so I shall end by telling you the truth, that I think you quite wrong in your objection to 'nympholept.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
'nympholept.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
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