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madperson en · NOUN

Etymology

From mad + person.

Meanings

1. (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
   • Specifically, it was during the Classical period that madpersons and criminals came to be confined in large numbers — in a sense, analyzed out of society at large, organized into prisons (as knowledge is organized into tables)[…] 2000, Patrick Colm Hogan, Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature, page 182:
   • If they had been produced in the 1950s, the producers of such cultural texts (as well as those who consume them) would certainly have been judged either madpersons or geniuses. 1992, Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, page 212:

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