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paranœa (uncountable)
- (rare) Obsolete spelling of paranoia.
- 1865, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Henry C. Lea (publisher, 1866), page 710:
- PARANŒA, (παρανοια, from para, and νους, ‘understanding.’) Delirium, Dementia.
1898, William Blair Stewart, A Synopsis of the Practice of Medicine, E.B. Treat and Co., page 409:Paranœa may recover, but tends to fixed delusions and dementia.
- 1904–5, Robert Barr, The Speculations of John Steele, Frederick A. Stokes Company (1905), page 269:
- “Does paranœa ever lead to murder, Mr. Nicholson?”
- 1907, Nevada Legislature, Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly…of the Legislature, volume 23, page 53, table XXII: “Form of mental diseases of those remaining December 31, 1906”:
- Paranœa
1912, Elbert Hubbard, Hollyhocks and Goldenglow, The Roycrofters, page 92:Self‐pity is the first symptom of paranœa.
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