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Definition of Madding
1. a. Affected with madness; raging; furious.
Definition of Madding
1. Adjective. (archaic) : Affected with madness; raging; furious. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of mad) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Madding
1. mad [v] - See also: mad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Madding
Literary usage of Madding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald (1894)
"madding Crowd,' but •! believe to smell sweet and blossom when all the gaudy
Growths now in fashion are faded and gone. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... in ' The Merchant of Venice ' (1879), Frank Troy in 'Far from the madding
Crowd' Claude .... madding ..."
3. John Drew by Edward Augustus Dithmar (1900)
"In The Squire, the story of which resembled Hardy's " Far From the madding Crowd,"
though Pinero insisted that he had never read that novel, Miss Rehan was ..."
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