The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Critics called the product’s most notable side effect “delirium” and warned that these deliriums could have catastrophic effects on children, the elderly, or the immunocompromised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation?
From Time Magazine Archive
On the evening of the second day, the girl—the one who Goddard said was so important—came into his room in between deliriums.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
I hurried to his bed-side, and knew by the first glance at his deliriums and his staring pupils that he was poisoned with atropine.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
The other day he had one of these deliriums.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various
