See maness on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, p. 130 (Google Books view)",
"text": "Taught the Ædenic mysteries of man\nAnd maness; how in union infinite,"
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"(obsolete, nonce word) Female equivalent of man: woman."
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