phrensy
Britishnoun
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Your remedy, most barbarous man, will prove the greatest poison to my health; for, though my former phrensy was but counterfeit, I now shall run into a real madness.
From The Inconstant by George Farquhar
Niobe appears with a sorrowful countenance—and Medea announces her character by the fierce expression of her physiognomy—stern courage is painted on the mask of Hercules, while that of Ajax proclaims his transport and phrensy.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
No mystic priest of the Corybantes could have worked himself up into a finer phrensy of language.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
She did not carry her phrensy so far as the other, but her miracles and her sanctity made a great noise; she pretended that she was paralytic, and could not leave her bed.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
What house, what family could e'er know peace, If such enthusiast's ravings were believ'd, And phrensy deem'd an insight of the future?
From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Robert Jephson
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