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n. (plural of paroxysm English)
Usage examples of "paroxysms".
The principal remedy in cramps, spasms, neuralgias, twitchings, paroxysms, etc.
Nicol has likewise described to me two cases of insane patients, whose lips are retracted during paroxysms of rage.
He has sent me photographs of two women, taken in the intervals between their paroxysms, and he adds with respect to one of these women, "that the state of her hair is a sure and convenient criterion of her mental condition.
Ann was sweating hard, still gasping hard for air, in and out, in and out—what violent paroxysms the rib cage could go through!
Ann was sweating hard, still gasping hard for air, in and out, in and out-what violent paroxysms the rib cage could go through!
Intense pleasure rippled through her, tossing her unprepared into paroxysms of satisfaction.
He determined—it is thus, by a succession of determinations by ourselves in regard to ourselves, that life improves us little by little—he determined the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of interior cloud peculiar to many organisations, and which, in paroxysms of passion and grief, dilates, the temperature of the soul changing, and pervades the entire man, to such an extent as to make him nothing more than a consciousness steeped in a fog.
Such paroxysms of justice and goodness do not belong to vulgar natures.
The fear of being swallowed up by this mechanized beast drives executives to orgies of self-examination and students to paroxysms of protest.
The more universities undergo paroxysms of protest, the more ghettos go up in flames, the less he wants to know about them, and the more closely he narrows the slit through which he sees the world.