phrensy

British  

/ ˈfrɛnzɪ /

noun

1. an obsolete spelling of frenzy

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Example Sentences

“Rage and phrensy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”

From New York Times

The Brits wrote that what they saw was "hideous" and "uncommonly savage," and that what they heard—the haka's rhythmic chants—were "the loudest and most dreadful vociferations, which gradually worked them up to a kind of phrensy."

From Chicago Tribune

"Thank you, Count, thank you," cried the man, grasping his hand in his with the vehemence of actual phrensy.

From Project Gutenberg

This threw him into the most raging phrensy, and inspired the genius of cruelty with new life and energy.

From Project Gutenberg

The mood seldom lasted long, however, and, indeed, could not have done so without driving him to phrensy; and now, as he came within sight of the plantations that skirted his other property, he put on a firmer frame of mind, cast doubt, and fear, and hesitation behind him, and called up those powers of quick, decisive thought and vigorous action which had often in former days carried him through many a scene of difficulty and danger.

From Project Gutenberg