Phrensy

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  • n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium.
  • v. To render frantic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See frenzy.
  • v. To render frantic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Obsolete forms of frenzy.
  • Word Usage
    "There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps, when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder."
    Variant
    frenzy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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