incubus
Example Sentences
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Either side of this 10-foot incubus Bryan Robson and Peter Shilton pose supportively, like game but frightened parents.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020
But, as Pope Francis has said, there is a moral incubus on mankind to make a reality of Article 6 of the agreement pledging the abolition of nuclear weapons altogether.
From US News • Aug. 10, 2015
At some midpoint in this incubus, it seemed that nothing would ever seem stupid, or at least surprisingly stupid, ever again.
From Slate
The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family.
From Time Magazine Archive
The end to which these incipient reasonings would lead him was not, and could not, then, be manifest to him; or Joe, scarcely rid of his fanatical incubus, would have revolted from them with horror.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing incubus
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale
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