madness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MAD'NESS, noun [from mad.] Distraction; a state of disordered reason or intellect, in which the patient raves or is furious. There are degrees of madness as of folly. 1. Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob. 2. Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.
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