frenzied
adjective
wildly excited or enthusiastic.
phrensied
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a variation of
frenzied.
Example Sentences
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How could I choose but hearken what she saith, The phrensied maiden?—Inachus's child?—
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The joy, felt and expressed by that faithful servant, was quickly changed to sorrow, when she observed, at one moment, his wild and phrensied look, and, at another, the dark melancholy, that overhung him.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
In a brief lyric concerto between her and the mocking Chorus her phrensied triumph is brought out, and how she takes the bleeding object to be head of a young lion.
From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Richard Green Moulton
His fixed countenance was more fearful than phrensied agitation or tremendous wrath.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
I would suggest phrensied or phrenzied, a word extremely like prenzie both in sound and appearance, and of the proper metre, thus perfectly satisfying two of the conditions.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
