The Devil's Dictionary: Enthusiasm
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
ENTHUSIASM
-n.
A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off - to Missolonghi.
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