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- noun Plural form of
asylum .
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Examples
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As this book reveals, patients in asylums didn't just sit in padded rooms.
Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic 2010
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A small remnant, however, proved incurable, and was confined in asylums and denied marriage.
Goliah 2010
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Liberals are very sick people and should be in asylums for the terminally hypocritical. madmatt
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To call him insane it to a disservice to the fine people locked up in asylums everywhere.
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To call him insane it to a disservice to the fine people locked up in asylums everywhere.
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Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?– 2004
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British schools were often called asylums or hospitals, and were largely founded and supported by charity.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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A small remnant, however, proved incurable, and was confined in asylums and denied marriage.
Goliah 1910
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A small remnant, however, proved incurable, and was confined in asylums and denied marriage.
Goliah 1910
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GPI was commonly believed to have been recognised as a disease in its own right in French asylums in the 1820s, although Bethlems John Haslam gives us a recognisable case study in his Illustrations of Madness 1810.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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