chrysalis

Speech parts

1. chrysalis - Noun

2. chrysalis - Verb

3. Chrysalis - Proper noun

Meaning

The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).

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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Müller

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Alfred de Vigny

We are gods in the chrysalis. Dale Carnegie

I felt that I was dying, and perhaps I did die a little, or rather began to die in the way that the cocoon of the chrysalis cracks at the end of winter; but unfortunately I did not die so thoroughly that I achieved new life like a butterfly. Halldór Laxness

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. Sharon Salzberg

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. Eric Idle

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