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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ravings
noun
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▪ A traveling fortuneteller interprets his ravings as a prophecy that a bridge is to be built.
▪ Every six months, she'd ring him and listen to the ravings of his latest guru.
▪ Oh, he knew you better than I, for all my rebellious ravings!
▪ These are not, you have to believe, the cynically high-minded ravings of a politician who merely wants to get re-elected.
▪ Two years before, I would have dismissed them as the ravings of hysterical minds.
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ravings

n. (plural of raving English) Usual form.

Usage examples of "ravings".

They kept me for five or six years, trying to puzzle out the meaning behind my ravings - once I got sober and saw the situation, I took quite a bit of care to do a lot of raving.

A lot of it -most of it probably is the collected ravings of assorted madmen, all faithfully written down.

At first his mother treated his theories as the wild ravings of inexperience.

However, whether it be the genuine production of a maniac, or founded upon the ravings of some unhappy being (which I think more probable), read it, and judge for yourself.

Now you have seen, up there”—and he nodded toward the floor above—“that half-dead Ger­man with a blind man’s eyes, listening devoutly to the ravings of that blind Spaniard with a dead man’s eyes.

The words seemed the ravings of a madman, and I said as much to William.

We must not forget: in the eyes of God the ravings of the wretch we have just handed over to justice are no different from those of the masters who feast at the table of the excommunicated German of Bavaria.

It's an article of my family's faith that the future lies hidden in the Darine and Mrin Codices, and studying the collected ravings of a senile old Alorn warrior and a profoundly retarded idiot who'd had to be chained up for his own protection can be very frustrating.