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Les Misérables vocabulary
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sublimate
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tags: [psychology]
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Definition:1. [psychology] to subconciously suppress one's primitive instincts such that one's behaviour is more socially acceptable2. [outdated] to exalt to a place of honor
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“Somebody told me her mother was a celebrated actress killed in an airplane accident. Oh? My mistake, I presume. Is that so? I see. How sad.” (Sublimating her mother, eh?)
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time?
Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which consecrates.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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Doctor Strong looked almost as rusty, to my thinking, as the tall iron rails and gates outside the house; and almost as stiff and heavy as the great stone urns that flanked them, and were set up, on the top of the red-brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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His unfulfilled physical desires therefore sought sublimation in food. I, unfortunately, was the victim of all of this.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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