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Monomania as a defense for crime has brought expert evidence into great disrepute.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEY
The main area of the mind being occupied with a few people and their affairs, a tendency to monomania appears.
THE HOMECHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
I understand that this becomes a monomania with a woman who lives in a rented house.
THE HOUSEEUGENE FIELD
Really, Walpole, if your monomania were not well known, I should take such an expession very seriously.
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMAGEORGE BERNARD SHAW
It bore no resemblance to ordinary crimes and was clearly a case of monomania with hallucinations.
CRIMINAL MANGINA LOMBROSO-FERRERO
They were the hot, passionate eyes of a man obsessed, of a man possessed of a monomania.
THE MAN IN THE TWILIGHTRIDGWELL CULLUM
Hostility to me seemed really to have been a sort of monomania with him from the first.
CONFESSIONW. GILMORE SIMMS
His lordship evidently perceived the monomania which controlled me, and heard me with great attention.
JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHERFREDERICK MARRYAT
Monomania is sometimes simply the exaggerated regard to one side of many-sided truth.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 451VARIOUS
Leading a solitary and narrow life, you allowed it to develop into a species of monomania.
HUGOARNOLD BENNETT

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