[f. as prec.] The act of unhinging; the fact of being or becoming unhinged.
1817. Chalmers, Astron. Disc., vii. 251. A melancholy unhingement in the constitution of man.
1857. J. Hamilton, Less. fr. Gt. Biog., 203. The disciples were beginning to recover from … the unhingement of old hopes.
1886. Symonds, Renaiss. It., VII. viii. 130. The unhingement of his reason.
