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madding

mad·ding [ mádding ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
behaving as if mentally challenged: acting in a way that suggests or reveals the presence of a psychiatric disorder ( literary )


Cultural Note

Far from the Madding Crowd, a novel (1874) by British writer Thomas Hardy. The first of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels, it is the story of a capricious, forceful young woman, Bathsheba Everdene, and the three men who want to marry her. It was made into a movie by John Schlesinger in 1967.

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