madperson
English
Noun
madperson (plural madpersons or madpeople)
- (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- 1992, Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (page 212)
- 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.
- 2000, Patrick Colm Hogan, Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature (page 182)
- 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) […]
- 1992, Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (page 212)
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