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Meanings of temporarily insane in English

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Usage of temporarily insane in English
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What I did not know was that he had gone temporarily insane.
Conquest of the Useless
2
Was he temporarily insane when he cut up the two women?
Mindhunter
3
So he became temporarily insane, to avoid defeat and maintain his reputation for scholarship.
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892
4
We must have been temporarily insane, the lot of us.
The ministry of pain
5
They were all happy, but they were temporarily insane in the eagerness of their pursuit.
Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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Unk and Boaz separated after Unk went temporarily insane.
The Sirens of Titan
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He was put under the care of attendants, as he was considered to be temporarily insane.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
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A cut-and-dried case of homicide while temporarily insane.
The Pariah
9
She was like a person temporarily insane.
The Gambler
10
But a court declared last year he had been temporarily insane at the time of the killing.
The Irish Times
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Beverley wondered whether she had become temporarily insane, and had hidden the pearls in a place already forgotten.
The Lion's Mouse
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They found suicide while temporarily insane and added their most severe censure of the conduct of the witness Sabre.
If Winter Comes
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No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain fever.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
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A very little of the rum excited him to extravagant exuberance of spirit, and a large dose made him temporarily insane.
Red Rooney: The Last of the Crew
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Had I not been temporarily insane with unnatural enthusiasm, I should never have made myself ridiculous by attempting to dance that Cossack waltz.
Tent Life in Siberia / A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adve...
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To stop Ajax, Athena makes him temporarily insane, and so he slaughters a flock of sheep instead, mistaking them for his former comrades-in-arms.
Turn left at the trojan horse: a would-be hero's american odysse...
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