"bedlamite" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bedlam + -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane.",
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          "text": "[S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.",
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          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91",
          "text": "Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] ."
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:",
          "text": "Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age.",
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        "A lunatic."
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        "(obsolete) A lunatic."
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