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Definition of Pyromania
1. Noun. An uncontrollable desire to set fire to things.
Definition of Pyromania
1. n. An insane disposition to incendiarism.
Definition of Pyromania
1. Noun. An uncontrollable urge to start fires. ¹
2. Noun. A habit in which a person has an obsession with fire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyromania
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyromania
Literary usage of Pyromania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"pyromania.—Notwithstanding the severity of the punishment which the law has
prudently associated with n proved commission of the crime of ..."
2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"pyromania.—Notwithstanding the severity of the punishment which the law has
prudently associated with a proved commission of the crime of arson, ..."
3. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1892)
"It thus appears that nearly half our lunatic murderers are eventually set at
liberty. CHAPTER LXVII. PUERPERAL MAMA. pyromania.— KLEPTOMANIA. DIPSOMANIA. ..."
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