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- noun Plural form of
delirium .
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Examples
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"As his deliriums are my dreams, as death my love my all."
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There is much bodice-ripping per se (a lot of bed hopping and shedding of clothes), but many of the characters or situations are fantastical -- that's where the "deliriums" part of the title comes in -- that sometimes they're more interesting than the sex.
LAist Christine N. Ziemba 2010
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I learned much more from their deliriums, their crises of depression, their panic attacks and obsessive disturbances than from the restricted universe of scientific treatises.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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I learned much more from their deliriums, their crises of depression, their panic attacks and obsessive disturbances than from the restricted universe of scientific treatises.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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I learned much more from their deliriums, their crises of depression, their panic attacks and obsessive disturbances than from the restricted universe of scientific treatises.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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One wishes this were just a joke, but history has seen many societies that approached greatness, only to be led astray by leaders who were not only drunk with power, but were also suffering from drug induced deliriums.
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Laura, her sister, never has such deliriums of fancy, but has her feet firmly on the earth: she deals with the urgent real question of whether to put the father into a nursing home.
Karin Badt: Berlinale 2009: Mitchell Lichtenstein's Happy Tears 2009
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And a candidate with real conservative principles could look pretty appealing in a state that has traditionally supported conservative candidates, the deliriums of the recent presidential race notwithstanding.
American Spectator Peter Schorsch 2009
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He's conscious of the fact that he's having deliriums, so he's kind of living and dying at the same time.
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Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest deliriums of fever.
Les Miserables 2008
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