bedlamite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open."
- "Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] ."
- "Cripps, bewildered at his friend's Bedlamite departure, stood staring helplessly after him with the ruined picture of Isaiah in his hand."
- "Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age."
Etymology
From bedlam + -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane.