All 6 Uses of
mystic
in
1984 by Orwell
- 'The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction.
p. 52..7mystical = sense of wonder
- 'If there is hope,' he had written in the diary, 'it lies in the proles.' The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
p. 82..5 *mystical = relating to beliefs that are beyond scientific understanding
- The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.
p. 103..8mystically = in a manner beyond scientific understanding
- Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.
p. 193..0mystical = belief in realities that are beyond rational understanding
- The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.
p. 220..2mystical = inspiring a sense of wonder
- White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism.
p. 289..4mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
Definition:
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(mystic) relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience; or one who attempts to tune into such realities