astonishment noun
"my first meeting with Oscar Wilde was an astonishment"

baptism noun
"the baptism of the gutter"

benighted adjective
"benighted travelers . . . have seen his midnight candle glimmering"

conviction noun
"certain thoughts sustain us in defeat . . . and it is these thoughts . . . that we call convictions"

dayspring noun
"the dayspring of their youth"

evocation noun
"emotion is an evocation and in ways beyond the senses alters events -- creating good and evil luck"

gloom verb
"a citron color gloomed in her hair"

magnanimity noun
"all her thoughts may like the linnet be . . . dispensing round their magnanimities of sound"

passion noun
"with enough passion to make a great poet"

prejudice noun
"all disliked England with a prejudice that had come down perhaps from the days of the Irish Parliament"

reason verb
"reasoned myself out of the instincts and rules by which one mostly surrounds oneself"

traffic verb
"convinced himself . . . the child was trafficking with bards, or druids, or witches"