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Ill-being   /ɪl-bˈiɪŋ/   Listen
Ill-being

noun
1.
Lack of prosperity or happiness or health.





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"Ill-being" Quotes from Famous Books



... now have welcomed any bodily suffering that could hide me from myself; but no illness came. I was a living pain, a conscious ill-being. In a thousand forms those questions would ever recur, but without hope of answer. When I fell asleep from exhaustion, hideous visions of her with Geoffrey would start me up with a great cry, sometimes with a curse on my lips. Nor were they the most horrible of those dreams ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Ill-being" :   misery, wretchedness, well-being, hard knocks, miserableness, hardship, adversity


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