dæmonomania

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dæmonomania (usually uncountable, plural dæmonomaniæ)

  1. Alternative spelling of demonomania
    • 1891, Théodule Ribot, chapter IX, in unknown, transl., Heredity, page 127:
      A form of monomania which has now disappeared, but which was in a highly flourishing state three hundred years ago, is the monomania of possession, or dæmonomania.