Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to design as “nymphets.”
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC1 more example
She hardly came up to my chest hair and had the kind of dimpled round little face French girls so often have, and I liked her long lashes and tight-fitting tailored dress sheathing in pearl-gray her young body which was still retained - and that was the nymphic echo, the chill of delight, the leap in my loins - a childish something mingling with the professional frétillement of her small agile rump.
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC
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