Definition of Enthusiasm

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ENTHUSIASM noun

	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.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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ENTHUSIASM:
?n??ju:z?æzm n. 1 (often foll. by for, about) a strong interest or admiration. b great eagerness. 2 an object of enthusiasm. 3 archaic extravagant religious emotion. [F enthousiasme or LL enthusiasmus f. Gk enthousiasmos f. entheos possessed by a god, inspired (as EN-(2), theos god)]

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