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
Thou alone canst comprehend my joys and my deliriums.
From Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Gustave Flaubert
And now began for these two a painfulness of waiting days, the sleep of both, meanwhile, being one nightmare of confused affrights, balloons and deliriums.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
