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Lunacy

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lunacy: see insanity insanity, mental disorder of such severity as to render its victim incapable of managing his affairs or of conforming to social standards. Today, the term insanity is used chiefly in criminal law, to denote mental aberrations or defects that may relieve a person from
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lunacy
(formerly) any severe mental illness
Lunacy 

an obsolete term for somnambulism, derived from ancient notions concerning the moon’s effect on the mind.
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A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
"A single kink in my brain," Thomson continued, "a secret weakness, perhaps even a dash of lunacy, and I might be quite reasonably the master-spy of the world.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
but I, cannot think of you as one of them,--in their brief New England pedigree, there has been time enough to infect them all with one kind of lunacy or another.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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