obsessional

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  1. Of or pertaining to a siege; obsidional.
  2. Pertaining to or of the nature of obsession.

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  • Those who suffer from a love-obsessional delusion may also suffer from other delusional disorders— schizophrenia, for example. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • I was repellently obsessional, dragging her round the adjacent gardens to see the Henry Moores and Bourdelles. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
  • It was difficult to connect this buxom, happy extrovert with that pathetic corpse on the record-room floor—or with the obsessional, authoritative administrator described by the staff of the Steen. —  A Mind to Murder-P D James-Dalgiesh 02
  • The obsessional neurosis over DH is not justified and certainly in 2008 we cannot call someone a famous apikores who espouses the consensus of scholarship. —  Your Moral Leader
  • It is believed his obsessional self scrutiny caused overreactions to normal changes in penis size one of the treatments for koro is the recommendation that fellatio be practiced immediately which would help avoid perceived retraction of the penis. —  gimcrack hospital (PG)
 

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