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demency
1 Jun 2011, 6:12 am
Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== From {{etyl|la}} {{term|dementia|dēmentia}}, from {{term|demens|dēmens|out of one's mind}}. ===Noun=== {{en-noun|-}} # {{context|now|_|rare}} [[ma..." New page ==English==
===Etymology===
From {{etyl|la}} {{term|dementia|dēmentia}}, from {{term|demens|dēmens|out of one's mind}}.
===Noun===
{{en-noun|-}}
# {{context|now|_|rare}} [[madness|Madness]]; [[dementia]].
#*'''1969''', Vladimir Nabokov, ''Ada or Ardor'', Penguin 2011, p. 263:
#*:no direct access could be obtained to the banned, or burned, books of the three cosmologists, Xertigny, Yates and Zotov (pen names), who had recklessly started the whole business half a century earlier, causing, and endorsing, panic, '''demency''' and execrable ''romanchiks''. |
