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Leporine Lolita Adj Resembling Hare Psychiatrist Studies Case

Word leporine
Definition adj. Of or resembling a hare.
Sentence The able psychiatrist who studies my case – and whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascination – is no doubt anxious to have me take my Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the ‘gratification’ of a lifetime urge, and release from the ‘subconscious’ obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee.
Source Lolita, II.3, p. 176

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