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Mádness. n.s. [from mad.]
provides more than one definition for the word.
Distraction; loss of understanding; perturbation of the
It uses the word in a sentence.
aculties.
It reveals the word's root or derivative.
Why, woman, your husband iS in his old tunes again:
O it includes published examples of the word's use.
he so rails against all married mankind, so curses all
Eve's daughters, and so buffets himself on the
forehead, that any madness ever yet beheld seemed
but tameness and civility to this distemper. Shakesp.
Merry Wives of Windsor.
There are degrees of madness as ol folly, the
disorderly jumbling ideas together, in some more, some
less. Locke.