rabidity

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  1. The state of being rabid; rabidness; specifically, rabies. [Rare.] Although the term hydrophobia has been generally applied to this terrible disease, I have preferred that of rabies, or rabidity, as being more characteristic of the chief phenomena manifested by it both in man and the lower animals. Copland, Dict. Pract. Med., Rabies, § 2. I fear that he [Macaulay] is one of those who, like the individual whom he has most studied, will “give up to party what was meant for mankind.” At any rate, he must get rid of his rabidity. He writes now on all subjects as if he certainly intended to be a renegade. Disraeli, Young Duke, v. 6.

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  • It†™ s probably way too late to save Pushing Daisies from a fate worse than Ned, but I suppose it†™ s nice that someone at ABC -- or perhaps in the show†™ s production office -- finally took some notice of, you know, the online rabidity over comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • You can hear him play (and marvel at the rabidity of his loyal fans) at the
  • Immediately, overwhelmingly, and with rabidity exceptional even for them, our news anchors and pundits and fourth estate elites all began hashing their opinions about whether Palin on the ticket would garner the votes of disaffected Hillary voters, simply because Palin is a woman. —  Pajamas Media
  • However, given their recent continued rabidity there appears to be little cause for optimism
  • The Abolitionists are subject to constant fits of rabidity which increase intensity with each successive attack. —  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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  1. from Middle Latin rabidita(t-)s, rabidness, from Latin rabidus, rabid: see rabid.
 

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