folie de grandeurn.

Brit.

/ˌfɒlɪ də ˈɡrɒndəː/,

/ˌfɒlɪ də ɡrɒ̃ˈdəː/, U.S.

/ˌfɑli də ɡrɑnˈdər/,

/foʊˌli də ɡrɑnˈdər/

Forms:

α. 1800s– folie de grandeur.

β. 1800s folie du grandeur (irregular and rare).

γ. 1900s– folie des grandeurs (rare).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French folie de grandeur, folie des grandeurs.

Etymology: In α. forms < French folie de grandeur (1884 or earlier) < folie folly n.¹ + de de prep. + grandeur grandeur n., as alteration of folie des grandeurs (see below). The β. forms show erroneous remodelling of the second element after French du of the (because grandeur is masculine). In γ. forms < French folie des grandeurs (1861 or earlier) < folie folly n.¹ + des of the + grandeurs , plural of grandeur grandeur n.Compare the following earlier example of a non-naturalized example of the French form folie des grandeurs in English context:1884 Vanity Fair 29 Nov. 345/2 The craze of a silly and infatuated woman afflicted with what the French call ‘la folie des grandeurs’. Compare also German Größenwahnsinn and its apparent model French monomanie de grandeur (both 1861 or earlier). For occasional earlier borrowing, in psychiatric contexts, of French phrases with folie , see etymological note at folie à deux n.

Originally Psychiatry.

Originally: a condition characterized by the delusional belief that one possesses greatness or is a great historical or religious figure (rare). In later use: self-importance, self-glorification, or excessive pride; an instance or product of this. Cf. megalomania n., delusions of grandeur n. at delusion n. 3c.Quot. 1873 shows use of an extended phrase of a similar type.

ΚΠ

1873 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 15 Mar. 134/2 Upon the report of one of his confrères—of the one, for instance, who invented the ‘folie des grandeurs et des persécutions’—he would be quickly transferred from the parlors of the Direction to the cell of a lunatic.]

1890 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Feb. 203/2 Though there was but slight improvement in the bulbar symptoms, those of folie de grandeur no longer existed.

1895 Musical Courier 13 July (London ed.) 18/3 When Lombroso proves to you that Michael Angelo was a naughty old degenerate,and that Jesus Christ was a sufferer from ‘folie du Grandeur’, then indeed you ask, ‘What next?’

1915 A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 A new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur.

1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman x. 169 It was unquestionably a combination of sunstroke and the state classified by psychologists as folie de grandeur.

1993 Time Out 31 Mar. 57/1 The film constitutes a heady anthem to abstracted, mad passion: at once a modern fairy tale and a cinephile's folie de grandeur.

2016 Church Times 19 Feb. 32/2 But folie de grandeur is to newspaper editors what silicosis is to miners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	folie de grandeur
释义	folie de grandeurn. Brit. /ˌfɒlɪ də ˈɡrɒndəː/, /ˌfɒlɪ də ɡrɒ̃ˈdəː/, U.S. /ˌfɑli də ɡrɑnˈdər/, /foʊˌli də ɡrɑnˈdər/ Forms: α. 1800s– folie de grandeur. β. 1800s folie du grandeur (irregular and rare). γ. 1900s– folie des grandeurs (rare). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French folie de grandeur, folie des grandeurs. Etymology: In α. forms < French folie de grandeur (1884 or earlier) < folie folly n.¹ + de de prep. + grandeur grandeur n., as alteration of folie des grandeurs (see below). The β. forms show erroneous remodelling of the second element after French du of the (because grandeur is masculine). In γ. forms < French folie des grandeurs (1861 or earlier) < folie folly n.¹ + des of the + grandeurs , plural of grandeur grandeur n.Compare the following earlier example of a non-naturalized example of the French form folie des grandeurs in English context:1884 Vanity Fair 29 Nov. 345/2 The craze of a silly and infatuated woman afflicted with what the French call ‘la folie des grandeurs’. Compare also German Größenwahnsinn and its apparent model French monomanie de grandeur (both 1861 or earlier). For occasional earlier borrowing, in psychiatric contexts, of French phrases with folie , see etymological note at folie à deux n. Originally Psychiatry. Originally: a condition characterized by the delusional belief that one possesses greatness or is a great historical or religious figure (rare). In later use: self-importance, self-glorification, or excessive pride; an instance or product of this. Cf. megalomania n., delusions of grandeur n. at delusion n. 3c.Quot. 1873 shows use of an extended phrase of a similar type. ΚΠ 1873 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 15 Mar. 134/2 Upon the report of one of his confrères—of the one, for instance, who invented the ‘folie des grandeurs et des persécutions’—he would be quickly transferred from the parlors of the Direction to the cell of a lunatic.] 1890 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Feb. 203/2 Though there was but slight improvement in the bulbar symptoms, those of folie de grandeur no longer existed. 1895 Musical Courier 13 July (London ed.) 18/3 When Lombroso proves to you that Michael Angelo was a naughty old degenerate,and that Jesus Christ was a sufferer from ‘folie du Grandeur’, then indeed you ask, ‘What next?’ 1915 A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 A new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur. 1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman x. 169 It was unquestionably a combination of sunstroke and the state classified by psychologists as folie de grandeur. 1993 Time Out 31 Mar. 57/1 The film constitutes a heady anthem to abstracted, mad passion: at once a modern fairy tale and a cinephile's folie de grandeur. 2016 Church Times 19 Feb. 32/2 But folie de grandeur is to newspaper editors what silicosis is to miners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890
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