Word: monomania
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there might be something fresh and modern in the neighborhood to relieve the antique barrenness of their abode; or if Mr. G. Washington, the only and original father of his country, had, while his troops were encamped in the College buildings, been seized with a severe attack of his monomania, and had gone to whittling the tree or otherwise mutilating it with edged tools; or if the early College presidents had been in the habit of hanging their monthly wash upon its swaying branches, - then, and in any similar case of sacred historic association, not only would I decry...