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Webster 1913 Edition


Qualm

Qualm

,
Noun.
[AS.
cwealm
death, slaughter, pestilence, akin to OS. & OHG.
qualm
. See
Quail
to cower.]
1.
Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
[Obs.]
thousand slain and not of
qualm
ystorve [dead].
Chaucer.
2.
A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
Qualms of heartsick agony.”
Milton.
3.
Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
For who, without a
qualm
, hath ever looked
On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked?
Roscommon.
4.
A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Qualm

QU'ALM

,
Noun.
quam.
1.
A rising in the stomach, as it is commonly called; a fit of nausea, or a disposition or effort of the stomach to eject its contents.
2.
A sudden fit or seizure of sickness at the stomach; a sensation of nausea; as qualms of heart-sickagony.
For who, without a qualm, hath ever look'd on holy garbage, though by Homer cook'd?
3.
A scruple of conscience, or uneasiness of conscience.

Definition 2024


Qualm

Qualm

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German

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Noun

Qualm m (genitive Qualms or Qualmes, no plural)

  1. smoke, particularly when very dense or regarded as unpleasant; fume
    beißender, dichter, dicker, weißer, schwarzer Qualm; einen starken Qualm ausstoßen
    acrid, dense, thick, white, black smoke/fumes; to give off strong fumes
    • 1964, Dieter Noll, Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt: Roman einer Heimkehr (Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1964), page 307 (GoogleBooks; retrieved 19 July 2015)
      Fern erhob sich die Silhouette der Brikettfabrik mit ihren Schloten, und die Schornsteine spien Qualm aus, schwarzen, undurchdringlichen Rauch, der sich wie ein Vorhang vor den Horizont legte. In dieser Wand aus Wolken und Qualm und Morgendunst stand blutrot die Sonnenscheibe.
      Far off rose up the silhouette of the briquette factory with its smokestacks, and those chimneys disgorged thick fumes, black, dense smoke, that drew before the horizon like a curtain. In this wall of clouds and thick fumes and morning haze stood blood-redly the Sun′s disc.

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Synonyms

  • Rauch
  • Schmauch
  • (regional) Wasen/Wrasen, Brodel, Schwalch, Schwalk, Schmok

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Friedrich Kluge, revised by Elmar Seebold: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. 24th, checked through and expanded edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-017473-1, p. 734.
  2. 1 2 Qualm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  3. Max Mangold and Dudenredaktion: Duden Aussprachewörterbuch. In: Der Duden in zwölf Bänden. 6th edition. Volume 6, Dudenverlag, Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/Zürich 2005, ISBN 978-3-411-04066-7, p. 659.
  4. Eva-Maria Krech, Eberhard Stock, Ursula Hirschfeld, Lutz Christian Anders et al.: Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch: Mit Beiträgen von Walter Haas, Ingrid Hove, Peter Wiesinger. 1st edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6, p. 853.

qualm

qualm

See also: Qualm

English

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Noun

qualm (plural qualms)

  1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
  2. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
  3. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
    • 2012 August 25, Andy Pasztor, “Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies”, in Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2012-08-26:
      Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements.
  4. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
  5. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.) [from 17th c.]
    This lawyer has no qualms in saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.

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