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Monomaniac   Listen
noun
Monomaniac  n.  A person affected by monomania.






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"Monomaniac" Quotes from Famous Books



... left alone with him after dinner. He cannot bear contradiction. The queerest old man alive. One of his most intimate friends told me that he was undoubtedly deranged, mad as a March hare upon some subjects, and a monomaniac upon others. Do you know that he keeps a relay of young men, thoroughly trained for the work, to follow him round all day and pick up his droppings,—or what his followers call 'sibylline leaves,'—bits ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various

... he was still weak and ill. I brought him here under an assumed name, and he remains shut up in his rooms all day, and only ventures out at night to breathe the fresh air. His mind has never recovered its tone since that brain fever. He has become a monomaniac on one subject, the dread of being discovered, and hanged for murder. Nothing will tempt him from his solitude—nothing can induce him to venture out, except at midnight, when all are asleep. He is the ghost who frightened Margery ...
— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... great-aunt of Mr. Raleigh, devised her property, the will might possibly have been set aside as that of a monomaniac, but for the fact that he cared too little about anything to go to law for it, and for the still more important fact that the heirs-at-law were sufficiently numerous to ingulf the whole property and leave ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Monomaniac" :   diseased person, sufferer



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