Unhingement

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of unhinging, or the state of being unhinged. countable, uncountable

    "Yet we have to remember that six consecutive days of rehearsing the star part of The Fallen Angel, at the New Gaiety Theatre where the plaster was not properly dry, might have brought about an unhingement of spirits which, again, might have led to eccentricities."

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"Yet we have to remember that six consecutive days of rehearsing the star part of The Fallen Angel, at the New Gaiety Theatre where the plaster was not properly dry, might have brought about an unhingement of spirits which, again, might have led to eccentricities."

Etymology

From unhinge + -ment.

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