MONOMANIA in a Sentence

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1. I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine.
2. It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONOMANIA
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monomania
 n.  a mania restricted to one thing or idea
Classic Sentence:
1  It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
2  But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
3  "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
4  He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
6  "There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
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