Definition of "bedlamite" []

• A mentally ill person. (noun)

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• "Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor."
• "(I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.)"
• "Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle."