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Full Glossary for Paradise Lost

dalliance (1016) flirting, toying, or trifling. Milton uses the term as a euphemism for sex.

descry (228) to catch sight of; discern.

discount'nanc't (110) ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted.

effeminate (634) having the qualities generally attributed to women; unmanly; not virile. Milton uses the term in the sense that a man allows a woman to take his place in the natural hierarchy in which, for Milton, women were inferior to men, especially in terms of reason and intellect.

efficacy (660) effectiveness.

Empyreal / Empyrean (430) the highest heaven; among Christian poets, the abode of God.

enthrallment (171) [Now Rare] enslavement.

Ethereal (45) not earthly; heavenly; celestial.

euphrasy (414) eyebright; any plant of the figwort family having pale lavender flowers in leafy clusters.

fealty (344) loyalty; fidelity.

Fiend (430) here, Satan.

firmament (261) the sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault.

foreknowledge (118) knowledge of something before it happens or exists; prescience.

frith (919) a narrow inlet or arm of the sea.


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