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Webster 1913 Edition
Sickliness
Sick′li-ness
,Noun.
The quality or state of being sickly.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sickliness
SICK'LINESS
,Noun.
1.
The state of being sickly; the state of being habitually diseased;2.
The state of producing sickness extensively; as the sickliness of a climate.Definition 2024
sickliness
sickliness
English
Noun
sickliness (usually uncountable, plural sicklinesses)
- The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 2, scene 1:
- I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
- To wayward sickliness and age in him.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, chapter 9:
- Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.
- 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, chapter 7:
- 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.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 2, scene 1:
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the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health
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