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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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{{suffix|sickly|ness |
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===Noun=== |
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# The state or characteristic of [[weakness]], [[incapacity]], or [[physical]] [[distress]] due to [[poor]] [[health]], especially of a [[chronic]] nature. |
# The state or characteristic of [[weakness]], [[incapacity]], or [[physical]] [[distress]] due to [[poor]] [[health]], especially of a [[chronic]] nature. |
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#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2|2|1|text=I do beseech your majesty, impute his words<br>To wayward '''sickliness''' and age in him.}} |
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#* {{circa|1595}} [[w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]], ''Richard II'', act 2, sc. 1: |
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#*: I do beseech your majesty, impute his words |
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#*: To wayward '''sickliness''' and age in him. |
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#* '''1843''', [[w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]], ''Martin Chuzzlewit'', ch. 9: |
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#* '''1847''', [[w:Anne Brontë|Anne Brontë]], ''Agnes Grey'', ch. 7: |
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====Synonyms==== |
====Synonyms==== |
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* {{l|en|unwellness}} |
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====Related terms==== |
====Related terms==== |
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[[et:sickliness]] |
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{{trans-top|the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health}} |
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[[ml:sickliness]] |
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* Irish: {{t|ga|meath-thinneas|m}} |
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[[vi:sickliness]] |
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Latest revision as of 01:17, 19 August 2024
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sickliness (usually uncountable, plural sicklinesses)
- The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 2, scene 1]:
- I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
To wayward sickliness and age in him.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
- Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.
- 1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], chapter 7, in Agnes Grey. […], London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
- My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness, and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.
Synonyms
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[edit]the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health
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