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Type of crowd to be far from
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madding
Word definitions for madding in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
present participle adjective from obsolete verb mad "to make insane; to become insane" (see madden ); now principally in the phrase far from the madding crowd , title of a novel by Hardy (1874), who lifted it from a line of Gray's "Elegy" (1749), which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Madding \Mad"ding\, a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly , adv. [Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. --Milton.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
See mad
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context archaic English): Affected with madness; raging; furious. v (present participle of mad English)
Usage examples of madding.
Another night shot and no way for him to get back at Madding for bewitching him, or at her little crowd of boho friends for making fun of him every chance they could.
Salvation Army tack, where the munchies, beer, and jug wine set out on tables kept the traffic moving, making it difficult for lemmings to coagulate into madding mini-crowds.
Far Madding kept quiet when an Aes Sedai fell afoul of the law, but the Counsels had no reason to fear Aes Sedai, and for its own reasons, the Tower in turn kept quiet on those rare occasions when a sister found herself strung up for a judicial flogging.