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Meaning of madding AND maddening Fri May 26, 2006 17:27 pm  Meaning of madding AND maddening
 

Hello everybody again

"Far from the madding crowd" is a famous novel by T. Hardy.

I think the word is MADDENING. What do you think?

Tom
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Meaning of madding AND maddening Fri May 26, 2006 17:51 pm  Meaning of madding AND maddening
 

Hi Tom

I never use the word "madding" unless it's to talk about the novel you referred to. But I think madding would be different from "maddening".

A maddening crowd would be crowd that makes you mad.

A madding crowd would be a crowd that is itself crazy or mad or in a rage.

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