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neuropath

British  
/ ˈnjʊərəʊˌpæθ /

noun

  1. a person suffering from or predisposed to a disorder of the nervous system

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In anger, as in every other emotion, the neuropath is as transient as he is truculent.

From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Briggs, Isaac George

Till this time the skirmishing of the morning might have afforded pleasure to the neuropath, experience to the soldier, "copy" to the journalist.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston

Again, the nervous child, like the adult neuropath, very often improves for the time being with every change of scene and surroundings.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles

Do they frankly forbid us to admire the productions of genius from now onwards? and say outright that no neuropath can ever be a revealer of new truth?

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

In his book we find nothing of the fanatic who ordered the Irish massacres, nothing of the neuropath who lived in hourly dread of assassination.

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank

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