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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



... animals of prey, or rather some kind of spirits which assume the forms of these creatures, as their constant enemies, and the cause of every misfortune they endure; and in seasons of difficulty or sickness they ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 • John Franklin
... unhappy, for the aged prophet Samuel would not see him, and the king felt that God was not with him; and he often had fits of sickness when he was in deep trouble, and only music could soothe his mind. Hearing that a harper was wanted for the king, one of David's friends praised his playing, his wisdom, his bravery, and his good looks, saying that God was with him; ...
— Children of the Old Testament • Anonymous
... Paradise; he went out when he closed his mouth to the Food of Eternal Sweetness. Whence we too, who are born amidst the toils of this pilgrimage, come without relish to this Food; we know not what we ought to desire, and the sickness of our disgust grows the more the further our souls keep away from feeding upon that Sweetness; and less and less does our soul desire those interior joys the longer it has grown accustomed to do without ...
— On Prayer and The Contemplative Life • St. Thomas Aquinas
... sickness, they might be sent to some hospital, or rooms be provided for them, as well as for the old and infirm, adjacent to the public working rooms. Certain hours might also be set apart for instructing the children, daily, in reading and writing, in the dining-hall, or in some other ...
— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford
... associated a good deal with L. in business and now in this sickness. I have studied his case some. His attitude toward disease is very much like his attitude in business. When he has been well and able to do his best, he has been in the past an autocrat in our businesses. If he said a thing would not go, or would go, his dictum was ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff


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