Both Uses of
séance
in
Childhood's End
- I've analysed lots of these seances, and I've never got answers that someone in the group mightn't have known or guessed— though sometimes they weren't aware of the fact.†
Chpt 8 *
- You remember that silly séance he arranged and how it ended when that girl-I forget her name-fainted?†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(séance as in: medium conducted a séance) a meeting in which spiritualists attempt to communicate with the dead
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and more archaically) a séance is a session or meeting of a professional society.