LUNACY in a Sentence

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For LUNACY, below is one of 4 sentences:
So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUNACY
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lunacy
 n.  insanity or madness; something deeply misguided
Classic Sentence:
1  Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
2  So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
3  She saw that he stood on the verge of lunacy, if he had not already stepped across it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
Example Sentence:
1  The only beneficiary of letting Hillary continue in her lunacy is the media and the Republican party.