Word Finder - insanity

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The state of being insane; madness.

The insanity of what she did was beyond his comprehension.

There are six more months of insanity to record in 1787.

A year later, the kings insanity being proved incurable, the regency was definitively established (February 1812).

This woman could bring me to the brink of insanity.

Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

In other texts the Druids are able to produce insanity.

The eccentricity which had characterized his opinions from the beginning of his career gradually became more marked until they developed into insanity.

Eric himself arrived at Upsala on the 16th in a condition of incipient insanity.

The first attack upon the horrors of the slave-trade was made in 1788; and in the same year, in the debates on the Regency Bill caused by the kings insanity, Pitt defended against Fox the right of parliament to make provision for the exercise of the powers of the crown when the wearer was permanently or temporarily disabled from exercising his authority.

I don't even know if I believe all this Guardians and vampires insanity.

It shares with The Dentist 1 and 2 extensive use of disorientating camerawork that emphasizes the peaks of insanity the characters suffer.

It has a public library, which has belonged to the township since 1857; and here are the Lyman School for Boys, a state industrial institution (opened in 1886 and succeeding a state reform school opened in 1846), and the Westboro Insane Hospital (homoeopathic, 1884), which is under the general supervision of the State Board of Insanity.

In 1788 Mackintosh removed to London, then agitated by the trial of Warren Hastings and the king's first lapse into insanity.

There are also semi-state institutions for the insane at Waverley, Barre, Wrentham and Baldwinville, and nineteen small private institutions, all under the supervision of the state board of insanity.

Even the London street dogs, as Sydney Smith said, joined with O'Connell in barking" God save the Queen."Oxford seems to have been craving for notoriety; but it may be doubted whether the jury who tried him did right to pronounce his acquittal on the ground of insanity.

But he may be asked whether certain facts or symptoms, assuming them to be proved, are or are not indicative of insanity.

October 1575, and who in his later years showed marked traces of insanity.

The use of bhang in moderation is comparatively harmless; ganja and charas when taken in excess are undoubtedly injurious, leading to crime and sometimes to insanity.

His diatribes against woman suggest a touch of madness, and he was in fact at one time seized with an attack of insanity.

He seems to have been freed for a time from the pangs of gout only to be afflicted with a species of mental alienation bordering on insanity.

For some years before Catherine died it was obvious that he was hovering on the border of insanity.

The excitement of the change from his retired life in Gatchina to omnipotence drove him below the line of insanity.

Quinctius Flamininus in 198 B.C. The city was famous for its black hellebore, a herb which was regarded as a cure for insanity.

Divorces may be obtained after residence of six months on the ground of adultery, cruelty, desertion or neglect for one year, habitual drunkenness for the same period, felony or insanity.

But as a childless queen her influence was limited; and when at last her only son, Edward, was born on the 13th of October 1453, her husband was stricken with insanity.

His life with Joanna was rendered extremely unhappy by his infidelity and by her jealousy, which, working on a neurotic temperament, precipitated her insanity.

Following on a decided lowering of the pain and touch senses, which may even lead to complete loss of cutaneous sensation, there comes a sleep which is often accompanied by pleasant dreams. There appears to be no evidence in the case of either the lower animals or the human subject that the drug is an aphrodisiac. Excessive indulgence in cannabis indica is very rare, but may lead to general ill-health and occasionally to insanity.

Of all the insanity going on around him, he figured Cora was the last to go crazy and dive into the lake.

Her father's dip into insanity had almost destroyed Tiyan.

Steve tells Catherine he wants to plead manslaughter on grounds of temporary insanity, but she looks dubious about the idea.

The release of 37 prisoners following an acquittal on grounds of insanity was also a factor.

On graduation in 1984 he went to work as a prison officer, only escaping from a life contract by feigning insanity.

This activity later be referred to in his trial in an elaborate attempt to plead insanity.

But when he finally dares to try to stop the insanity, he winds up in a desperate fight for survival.

No reputable historian would accept the idea that educating a woman sucks all the blood from her uterus, or that masturbation causes insanity.

A confident storyteller, he interweaves stories to show the chaos of a well-heeled society that reflects the insanity of the asylum.

Twain uses the voice of an exiled angel, temporarily in terrestrial residence, to describe the utter insanity of human kind.

A verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned.

The sheer insanity of Edward II's choice of a campsite now became apparent.

We describe these examples and others from the allied subject of graph theory, and show you how you can cope with instant insanity.

Having more than one wife is bigamy; having more than one husband is pure insanity.

To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity.

Sumdy's Dad live, with their unique mix of cracking covers, fantastic originals and all round insanity... .

That's the kind of insanity most Welsh voters find irresistible.

But the modern student of ethics, even if he remains sane, remains sane from an insane dread of insanity.

He stands squarely in a tradition in which dishonesty and fanaticism merge, in an amalgam which is often not easily separable from insanity.

For insanity to run riot there has to be the presence of a depraved and seriously unbalanced mind.

Having roused, by what ought perhaps to be called his insanity, the enmity, distrust and fear of all around him, including some members of his own family, he was assassinated on the night of the 23rd to 24th of March 1801, and was succeeded by his son Alexander I.

Thus, for example, as generations succeed one another, nervous disorders appear in various guise; epilepsy, megrim, insanity, asthma, hysteria, neurasthenia, a motley array at first sight, seemed to reveal themselves as terms of a morbid series; not only so, but certain disorders of other systems also might be members of the series, such as certain diseases of the skin, and even peculiar susceptibilities or immunities in respect of infections from without.

A law enacted in 1909 forbids a marriage in which either of the parties is a common drunkard, habitual criminal, epileptic, imbecile, feeble-minded person, idiot or insane person, a person who has been afflicted with hereditary insanity, a person who is afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis in its advanced stages, or a person who is afflicted with any contagious venereal disease, unless the woman is at least forty-five years of age.