Illness
[ˈɪlnəs] or ['ɪlnəs]
Definition
(noun.) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.
Edited by Bryan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
(n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
(n.) Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Disease, sickness, indisposition, ailing, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of her own illness, foretells that some unforeseen event will throw her into a frenzy of despair by causing her to miss some anticipated visit or entertainment. See Sickness.
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Examples
- His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I thought little of his illness at first. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her illness or estrangement did not affect Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I do not believe my illness is infectious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Old Sedley's lingering illness and death supervened, after which a meeting was for some time impossible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She tended him through a series of unheard-of illnesses with a fidelity most admirable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You must expect to keep open house in these last illnesses, said liberal Mrs. Vincy, once more of cheerful note and bright plumage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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