Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mania for freedom; excessive zeal for freedom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An excessive desire for or
obsession withfreedom .
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Examples
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Seated round a blazing fire in M'Dermott's _eleutheromania_ stove
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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These are the moot-points now filling all France with jargon, logic and eleutheromania.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English costume, or ride rising in their stirrups, -- in the most headlong manner; nothing but insubordination, eleutheromania, confused unlimited opposition in their heads.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
avivamagnolia commented on the word eleutheromania
~manic desire for freedom
January 17, 2009
jaime_d commented on the word eleutheromania
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011
qms commented on the word eleutheromania
Poor Ernest grows weary of censure
And longs for release from indenture:
Eleutheromania
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February 4, 2015