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Definition of Megalomaniacs
1. megalomaniac [n] - See also: megalomaniac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megalomaniacs
Literary usage of Megalomaniacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years of Public Service by Arthur Griffiths (1904)
"... the Jewel Thief—Imbecile Prisoners—Unnatural Appetites—The Persecution
Delusion—Megalomaniacs—Religious and Suicidal Lunatics—The Right of Petition—The ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"... is pure paretic dementia, general paresis without delusions. To speak correctly,
persons thus afflicted are neither megalomaniacs nor ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The former become persecutors, the latter are mostly persecuted megalomaniacs,
inoffensive, deteriorated and good natured. 6. Evolution—The evolution of the ..."
4. The Century (1902)
"... the number of recoveries will diminish, and the pompous name of John Alexander
Dowie will be added to the long list of spiritual megalomaniacs. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Together with his sincere respect for Hitler, Brauchitsch has the enormous
advantage, in the present set-up of Nazi opportunists and megalomaniacs, ..."
6. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"Megalomaniacs are smarter, and sometimes have subtler dialectic faculties than
you have. Just let me conduct the examination." And then, after a loud "h'm! ..."
7. Roman Imperialism by Tenney Frank (1914)
"... passages in later Roman historians which refer to an early seaport at Ostia
and to an extensive commerce are to be attributed to patriotic megalomaniacs ..."
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