Definition of "madmen" []

• Plural form of madman. (noun)

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• "They are often called madmen or saints because they live based on their own wisdom, going against the grain of society."
• "And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews; for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman."
• "But, unfortunately, there have arisen certain madmen who think themselves gods; men who say by their conduct 'I am made on a special last, different from the rest of my fellowmen."