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phrensy

/ ˈfrɛnzɪ /

noun

  1. an obsolete spelling of frenzy

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

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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."

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

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

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As he went on, he spoke more and more rapidly, and his eye rolled over the magistrates, as he lashed himself into phrensy, by a recapitulation of his sufferings and his wrongs.

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