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Prelibation   Listen
noun
Prelibation  n.  
1.
A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.
2.
A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.





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"Prelibation" Quotes from Famous Books



... constant presence of a feeling which only that great observer of human nature (so far as I am aware) has ever noticed, viz., that merely the excess of my happiness made me jealous of its ability to last, and in that extent less capable of enjoying it; that in fact the prelibation of my tears, as a homage to its fragility, was drawn forth by my very sense that my felicity was too exquisite; or, in the ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey


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