Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sprinkling; a sprinkling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of sprinkling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
sprinkling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numbed and blunted the sense of the smart, and given me to feel the titillating inspersion of balsamic sweets, drew from me the delicious return, and brought down all my passion, that I arrived at excess of pleasure through excess of pain.
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Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numb'd and blunted the sense of the smart, and given me to feel the titillating inspersion of balsamic sweets, drew from me the delicious return, and brought down all my passion, that I arrived at excess of pleasure through excess of pain.
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Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numbed and blunted the sense of the smart, and given me to feel the titillating inspersion of balsamic sweets, drew from me the delicious return, and brought down all my passion, that I arrived at excess of pleasure through excess of pain.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749
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The inspersion of music of a curiously penetrating, moving sort -- composed by Saint-Saëns in an approximation to Grecian measures -- added a poetic undertone to the poetry of the situations and of the lines; and a greater intensity was given to the crises of the play -- an artistic reproduction of the effect caused by the accident of the night before -- by extinguishing the electric lamps and so bringing the action to a focus in the mellow radiance which came from the golden footlights and richly lighted the stage.
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881
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Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numb’d and blunted the sense of the smart, and given me to feel the titillating inspersion of balsamic sweets, drew from me the delicious return, and brought down all my passion, that I arrived at excess of pleasure through excess of pain.
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