Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
unhinging , or the state of beingunhinged .
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Examples
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Again, one can surely be forgiven for seeing a harbinger here, and not only of eventual mental unhingement.
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Again, one can surely be forgiven for seeing a harbinger here, and not only of eventual mental unhingement.
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And its unhingement would in turn naturally cause Islam, the Islam of Khomeini and his ilk, to make a comeback.
OPEN THREAD. 2009
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Theatre where the plaster is not yet properly dry, might have brought about an unhingement of spirits which, again, might have led to eccentricities.
Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900
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This may not suffice to account for the unhingement of his reason.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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I have only now completed the first series (1961-July 1968), but two things stand out for me: the unhingement of the right wing over communism and civil rights; and how similar the extreme rhetoric of 1968 is to the routine rhetoric of today.
Crooks and Liars 2010
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Once you understand that Socialist are a bit unhinged to begin with, and the more they gather and plot...the unhingement becomes more and more manic until arrogance and nonsense is all they have to draw from.
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I gave you this unhingement from reality: Wanted: a local prosecutor to ...
Sound Politics 2009
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I gave you this unhingement from reality: Wanted: a local prosecutor to ...
Sound Politics 2009
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I gave you this unhingement from reality: Wanted: a local prosecutor to ...
Sound Politics 2009
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