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OP the worthless word for the day is: delirament
[fr. L. deliramentum, fr. delirare, to be crazy]
archaic an insane fancy: craze, delusion
"I stood then in the door of a little ante-room
opening into the drawing-room and looking on the
courtyard, and gazed thence at those three pictures,
as if it were all a delirament, till out of them Effie
stepped in person, and danced, trilling to herself,
through the groups, flashing, sparkling, flickering,
and disappeared."
- Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863
thanx to Project Gutenberg EBooks..
with some of these, it's easy to see why they were dropped.
Replaced by the word delirium?
OP perhaps delusion fits in the citation rather better?
Yeah, but...mine sounds more like it!
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