DISTRACTION, n. [L.] 1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.2. Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction. [See 1 Corinthians 7.]3. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as political distractions.Never was known a night of such distraction.4. Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness. [We usually apply this word to a state of derangement which produces raving and violence in the patient.]5. Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity.On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction.
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