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Maenad

noun

An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.

(Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus.

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"Maenad" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves into a fury. Their elf-locks hung about their fierce black eyes. The sinews of their lean necks worked tensely in their voluble rage. Had they seen our mild missionary at that moment, whom all men respect and all children instinctively love, they would have torn him in pieces in their Maenad fury, and would have thought they were doing their duty as ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... She looked handsomer and more maenad-like than ever, as she stood leaning against Buntingford's writing-table, her arms folded, one slim ...

— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... justice to the memory of this woman, whose long yellow hair was so beautiful, and whose character was so colorless. The legend which made her a poison-brewing Maenad has been proved a lie—but only at the expense of the whole society in which she lived. The simple northern folk, familiar with the tales of Chriemhild, Brynhild, and Gudrun, who helped to forge this legend, could not ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

Words linked to "Maenad" : woman, Greek mythology, adult female