deliration
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of deliration
1590–1600; < Latin dēlīrātiōn- (stem of dēlīrātiō ) folly, equivalent to dēlīr ( āre ) to be silly, literally, go out of the furrow ( dē- de- + līr ( a ) furrow + -āre infinitive ending) + -ātiōn- -ation
Example Sentences
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Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.
From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It was on Saturday night that he, drawing his last life-breaths, gave up the ghost there;—leaving a world, which would never go to his mind, now broken out, seemingly, into deliration and the culbute generale.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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