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  • But that wasn't even the half of it, as the GRH's bedspace was massively congested with long-stay geriatric cases, screaming, shrieking dements, some of whom had been there for over a decade.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • What nest of dements had he stumbled into, and why hadn't they gotten themselves cured long ago?

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • If we tried to make our story public, we'd be called hoaxers or dements, and quite possibly committed for treatment.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Then Norton - Was Lilisaire above using dements for purposes no sane person would touch?

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • If we tried to make our story public, we'd be called hoaxers or dements, and quite possibly committed for treatment.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Then Norton - Was Lilisaire above using dements for purposes no sane person would touch?

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • What nest of dements had he stumbled into, and why hadn't they gotten themselves cured long ago?

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • In short, we are not dealing here with paretics or senile dements, who, although being at the same time prisoners, remain subject to the same unavoidable lot of the paretic or the senile dement.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • It is quite true, Näcke concluded, that homosexual actions occur in every form of psychosis, especially in congenital and secondary dements, and at periods of excitement, but we are here more concerned with "pseudo-homosexuality" than with true inversion.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • He has not told us in the Bible; and who am I, to deal out God's thunders as if they belonged to me, and judge people of whose real merits and dements in God's sight I have no fair means of judging?

    Sermons for the Times Charles Kingsley 1847

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