tumescence

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Photograph: BBC/Vera Productions The return of Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive Downton Abbey I say, all this colonial tumescence makes for bally good drama, what?

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2010

A sudden tumescence of the ego and a furious exaltation of verbal powers upon losing a collar-button.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert

Hitherto we have been occupied mainly with the first phase, that of tumescence, and with its associated psychic phenomena.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock

It will be seen that this attitude toward the facts of tumescence among birds and other animals includes the recognition of dances, songs, etc., as expressions of "gladness."

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock