sickness
IPA: sˈɪknʌs
noun
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
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Examples of "sickness" in Sentences
- I have heard there is not much sickness from the disease now.
- He has liver disease now; but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked.
- He has liver-disease now, but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked.
- I really hope that the sickness is the time travel madness because it would make alot more sense.
- But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.
- “Thou keenest a cure right well; the remedy of his sickness is the Queen of the Serpents, and thou knowest her abiding-place and hast been with her.”
- When asked how he would cure what he described as a "sickness", one of David Cameron's key suggestions was "a welfare state that doesn't reward idleness".
- There are grounds for the belief that the blacks even suffered from an infectious disease similar to influenza, which they described as sickness of the mouth and nose.
- Indeed, where any are conscious that their sickness is a vindictive punishment of some particular sin, and they cannot look for the removal of their sickness without particular applications to God for the pardon of such a sin, there it may be proper to acknowledge and tell his case, that those who pray over him may know how to plead rightly for him.
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