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trance (trans, träns)

noun

  1. a state of altered consciousness, somewhat resembling sleep, during which voluntary movement is lost, as in hypnosis
  2. a stunned condition; daze; stupor
  3. a condition of great mental concentration or abstraction, esp. one induced by religious fervor or mysticism
  4. in spiritualistic belief, a condition in which a medium passes under the control of some external force, as for the transmission of communications from the dead during a séance

Etymology: ME < OFr transe, great anxiety, fear < transir, to perish < L transire, to die, lit., go across: see transit

transitive verb tranced, trancing tranc′·ing

Old Poet. entrance

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trance

n.

coma, daze, brown study, insensibility; see stupor.


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trance Usage Examples

Preposition: like

  • state: The therapist will then gently wake you from your trance like state.

Converse of object

  • induce: There has been no special induction, no attempt to induce a deep trance.

Adjective modifier

  • hypnotic: For the same reason the phrase " an hypnotic trance " will not be used.

Modifies a noun

  • induction: The best quality of trance induction is on a 121 basis.

Noun used with modifier

  • psy: Shaz xxxx â¹ Where's all the psy trance?
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trance quotes

   He hath awakened from the dream of lifeö 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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