obsecrations

Updated: May 28, 2025

The impotence of his mind and body which he had supposed final, vanished. Solitude again acted on his disordered nerves; he was once more obsessed, not by religion itself, but by the acts and sins it forbids, by the subject of all its obsecrations and threats.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - Against the Grain