Definition of "phrensy" []

• Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. (noun)
• To render frantic. (verb)

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• "His "phrensy" of desire highlights not what the mirror has accomplished, but what it hasn't."
• "Unhappy creature that I am, said she, in a kind of phrensy, wringing her hands at the same time, and turning from me, her eyes lifted up!"
• "There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps, when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder."