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Sickness   /sˈɪknəs/   Listen
noun
Sickness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. "I do lament the sickness of the king." "Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms."
2.
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Synonyms: Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.





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"Sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a tender consideration for those who, having served their country long and well, are reduced to destitution and dependence, not as an incident of their service, but with advancing age or through sickness or misfortune. We are all tempted by the contemplation of such a condition to supply relief, and are often impatient of the limitations of public duty. Yielding to no one in the desire to indulge this feeling of consideration, I can not rid myself of the conviction that if these ex-soldiers ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... the loathsome fever quickened the pulses of the man at bay, and the curious needle-like prickling of the skin came to signal the return of the homicidal fear-frenzy. The reaction to the normal racked him like the passing of a mortal sickness when his accusing angel said in ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... all your friends looked upon it as certain that you would be employed? There is nothing, Mr. Finn, that a man should fear so much as some twist in his convictions arising from a personal accident to himself. When we heard that the Devil in his sickness wanted to be a monk, we never thought that he would become a saint in glory. When a man who has been rejected by a lady expresses a generally ill opinion of the sex, we are apt to ascribe his opinions to disappointment rather ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... up at once. I was not so great a bore as he feared. After he had given me a great deal of information about this fly, and the sleeping sickness, I asked him what he thought of the future of the continent, to which he responded with growing geniality. ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... of the story, dealing with Caedmon's sickness and death, there is evidence of how the aged, the sick and the dying were tended ...
— Early Double Monasteries - A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 • Constance Stoney


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