rabidnessn.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar xv. §27 The furies and rabidness of their passion.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) ii. xvi. 327 Protected against the malice, the envy, the fury, and the rabidness of self-ended Man.

1835 Times 12 Sept. 3/6 A conquest over political opponents whose wrath was fed by disappointment and rabidness.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 409 Wolves..going forth to prey when urged to rabidness by hunger.

1914 Mod. Lang. Notes 29 259/1 A church which exalted the untruthful rabidness of the ignorant and superstitious Veuillot..was bound to lose its moral prestige.

1964 R. Phares Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand ix. 129 The rabidness of the frontier in time died down, and though rivalry continued to exist in a fashion, it became good- natured.

2001 Isis 92 412/1 Despite his rabidness, Weininger articulated some main currents of thought a hundred years ago.