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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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intromission
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Definition:1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.2. The act of letting go in; admission.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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at Balbec I could distinguish only in too fragmentary a form, broken by so many vulgar intromissions that had no place in my dream, bathers, dressing-boxes, pleasure yachts.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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