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bedlamite

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abdeeilmtStarts with BEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an archaic term for a lunatic

Word origin

From bedlam + -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane.

Used in a sentence

  • [S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.
  • Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .
  • Cripps, bewildered at his friend's Bedlamite departure, stood staring helplessly after him with the ruined picture of Isaiah in his hand.

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