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Definition of Phrensies
1. phrensy [v] - See also: phrensy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrensies
Literary usage of Phrensies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"And, when he hath wondered a while at this woeful spectacle, let him know and
consider, that this is but a slight image of those spiritual phrensies, ..."
2. Notabilities in France and England by Philarète Chasles (1853)
"All popular phrensies have their Bacchantes.* • It may be interesting to some
readers who would refresh their memories concerning the pagan rites, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"... since every insane passion grows rank in depraved religions; or if phrensies
are supposed to be inflicted by him, seeing that every passion is itself a ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"These epidemical phrensies, however, to which I am alluding, were merely tumultuous,
though certainly fostered by the creed of perpetual miracles, ..."
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