frenzy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FREN'ZY, noun [Latin phrenitis, Gr. from mind, which is from moving, rushing. See Frantic.] Madness; distraction; rage; or any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction. All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
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