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Webster 1913 Edition


Ailment

Ail′ment

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Noun.
Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; – not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
“Little ailments.”
Landsdowne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ailment

A'ILMENT

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Noun.
Disease; indisposition; morbid affection of the body; but the word is not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

Definition 2024


ailment

ailment

English

Noun

ailment (plural ailments)

  1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 2/9/1, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

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  • ailment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • ailment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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