unhingementとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

unhingement (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 unhingements)

1. The act of unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.
   • ​[1889 January]​, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the page)”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     et 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.

参照

• “unhingement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.