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Revery, Reverie n. (pl. reveries)

A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." "When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it."

An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. (R.) "There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both (wise and foolish minds)."

Revery n. Same as Reverie.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Revery" Quotes from Famous Books

... very attentively. Her niece sat motionless, with her eyes fastened upon the yellow cover of the last number of 'La Mode,' which had chanced to fall into her hands. She aroused herself at last from her revery and carelessly turned over the leaves of the review in a manner which showed how little interest she felt in it. As she turned the first page a surprised cry escaped her, and her eyes were fastened upon the pamphlet with eager curiosity. Upon the frontispiece, where the ...

— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... roused from his revery by the voice of Faria, who, having also been visited by his jailer, had come to invite his fellow-sufferer to share his supper. The reputation of being out of his mind, though harmlessly and even amusingly so, had procured ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... return for intense toil. His countenance was handsome, and would have been rather gay than thoughtful in its expression, but for that vague and abstracted dreaminess of eye which so usually denotes a propensity to revery and contemplation, and betrays that the past or the future is more congenial to the mind than the enjoyment and action of the ...

— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... girl of sixteen, but, as I had noticed, very much devoted to her parents. At this moment she was running her hand through her father's hair, while he was rousing himself from his revery to answer her question. ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... the time I first had spoken to her, should thoughts of this strange and ragged maid have so possessed me that each day my memory of her returned, haunting me, puzzling me, plaguing my curiosity till imagination awoke, spurring my revery to the very border of an unknown land where rides Romance, in ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

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