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aberration |
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aberration Noun 1. a sudden change from what is normal, accurate, or correct 2. a brief lapse in control of one's thoughts or feelings: he suddenly had a mental aberration [Latin aberrare to wander away]
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aberration Translationsin a moment of mental aberration → en un momento de enajenación mental in a moment of mental aberration → dans un moment d'égarement in a moment of mental aberration → in einem Augenblick geistiger Verwirrung |
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| People in general thought him a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer. Unable to realize the gravity of her conduct she seemed at last content; and he looked at her as she lay upon his shoulder, weeping with happiness, and wondered what obscure strain in the d'Urberville blood had led to this aberration--if it were an aberration. A tremulous uncertainty of the action of all her limbs soon became a part of her regular state, and afterwards, at intervals of two or three months, she would often put her hands to her head, and would then remain for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind. |
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