Nietzsche may seem to you, as he has seemed to so many, a hopeless Abnormity; but his Titanism is in fact a wayward modern expression of a motive that has always played its notable part in the search for salvation, ever since heroism and the resolute will were first discovered by man.
"The Sources Of Religious Insight"
Josiah Royce
He became convinced that the monster which had frightened Marie was not an assassin hired by her enemies, not an expert diver, but a natural Abnormity that had acted innocently when he pursued the swimming maid.
"The Nameless Castle"
Maurus Jókai
The reason for it is this: that fair hair and blue eyes are a deviation from the type and almost constitute an Abnormity, analogous to white mice, or at any rate white horses.
"Essays of Schopenhauer"
Arthur Schopenhauer