Meaning of détraqué | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is dangerously deranged; a madman, a psychopath.

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“No one can pretend⟳ for a moment that in point⟳ of spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind⟳ was unsound. Every one who confronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers, seems to have⟳ acknowledged his superior power. Yet from the point⟳ of view⟳ of his nervous constitution, Fox was a psychopath or détraqué of the deepest dye.”

“Those who love⟳ everything are despised by everything, as those who love⟳ a city, in its profoundest sense⟳, become⟳ the shame of that city, the détraqués, the paupers […]”

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