autosuggestion

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The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow the greffes testiculaires.

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I'm sure he absorbed chemistry by autosuggestion, because certainly he was walking in his sleep when he left home washed, properly dressed, fed and equipped with lunch.

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But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion.

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Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion?

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It may have been autosuggestion, induced by the child's great need of him, but whatever it was was vaguely soothing.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)