eleutheromania love

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.

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  • noun An excessive desire for or obsession with freedom.

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Examples

  • Seated round a blazing fire in M'Dermott's _eleutheromania_ stove

    A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith

  • These are the moot-points now filling all France with jargon, logic and eleutheromania.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • 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

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  • ~manic desire for freedom

    January 17, 2009

  • from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

    March 6, 2011

  • Poor Ernest grows weary of censure

    And longs for release from indenture:

    Eleutheromania

    In some Ruritania

    Where words are not work but adventure!

    Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit

    February 4, 2015