psychopath是什么意思（psychopath的用法）

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一、psychopath是什么意思

1、psychopath 精神病患者，心理变态者

2、psycho-,精神，心理，-path,疾病，词源同pathology.

二、psychopath的用法

1、psychopath (n.)

2、1885, in the criminal psychology sense, a back-formation from psychopathic. The Daily Telegraph had, the other day, a long article commenting on a Russian woman who had murdered a little girl. A Dr. Balinsky prevailed upon the jury to give a verdict of acquittal, because she was a "psychopath." The Daily Telegraph regards this term as a new coinage, but it has been long known amongst Spiritualists, yet in another sense. ["The Medium and Daybreak," Jan. 16, 1885] The case alluded to, and the means of acquittal, were briefly notorious in England and brought the word into currency in the modern sense.

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