English

Noun

nympholept ‎(plural nympholepts)

1. A person in a state of nympholepsy.
   • 1922, D.H. Lawrence, "The Evening Land":

     Dark faery, / Modern, unissued, instinctive America, / Your nascent faery people / Lurking among the deeps of your industrial thicket, / Allure me till I am beside myself, / A nympholept.