madding
See also: Madding
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmædɪŋ/
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- Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
Adjective
editmadding
- (archaic) Affected with madness; raging; furious.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- The madding wheels of brazen chariots raged.
- 1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26:
- Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.
- 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
- Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Verb
editmadding
- present participle and gerund of mad
Danish
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editNoun
editmadding c (singular definite maddingen, plural indefinite maddinger)
Inflection
editDeclension of madding
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | madding | maddingen | maddinger | maddingerne |
genitive | maddings | maddingens | maddingers | maddingernes |
Synonyms
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edit- madding on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
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