Bedlams

Word BEDLAMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Bedlams"

What do we mean by bedlams?

A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.

An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.

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The word "bedlams" in example sentences

July 7, 2009 at 9:15 am kitteh hassa wrist rockit and a load ob cramberries an is planning to cause some bedlams ❋ Unknown (2009)

Naam – Hoi magistrate, with its unspeakable horrors, would go the way of all our dungeons and bedlams. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Is not insanity fearfully on the increase, as evidenced by the overcrowded bedlams of the land and the mania for self-destruction? ❋ Unknown (1906)

And they did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Surely if the knowledge of Him who came "to preach liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound," were diffused and received here, and were spread with no niggard hand, the prison of the Naam-Hoi magistrate, with its unspeakable horrors, would go the way of all our dungeons and bedlams. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

All the bedlams in creation broken loose could not have made such a scene. ❋ Simon Newcomb (1872)

This frenzy, terrible enough in individuals, had its most disastrous effects when with that peculiar facility of contagion which marks hysterical maladies, it swept through whole villages, transforming them into bedlams filled with unrestrained madmen. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

It is easy to speak or hear the word "hell;" but to analyze its significance and realize it in a sensitive fancy is difficult; and whenever it is done the fruit is madness, as the bedlams of the world are shrieking in testimony at this instant. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

Italian Cholera, were, with a few German Doctors, the only creatures whom dastard terror had not driven mad: they descended fearless into all gulfs and bedlams; watched over the pillow of the dying, with help, with counsel and hope; shone as luminous fixed stars, when all else had gone out in chaotic night: honour to them! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

His poor Jesuits, in the late Italian Cholera, were, with a few German Doctors, the only creatures whom dastard terror had not driven mad: they descended fearless into all gulfs and bedlams; watched over the pillow of the dying, with help, with counsel and hope; shone as luminous fixed stars, when all else had gone out in chaotic night: honour to them! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

He is not here on stilts or in buckram; but smiles in his easy chair, as he moralises through the loopholes of retreat, on the bustle and raree-show of the world, or on "those reverend bedlams, colleges and schools!" ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair. ❋ Unknown (1666)

The people, therefore, of the fair, made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men. ❋ Unknown (1666)

But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

Besides, when I consider also how, when they are as drunk as beasts, they, without all fear of danger, will ride like bedlams and madmen, even as if they did dare God to meddle with them if he durst, for their being drunk. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

The people, therefore, of the fair, made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men [142] (1 Cor. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

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