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ill health, ill-health
[ill a. 7, health n. 2 a.]
An unsound, disordered condition of health; that state of health which is characterized by the presence of some disease or by the imperfect functioning of the physical processes.
1698J. Locke Let. 6 Apr. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) II. 464 As for writing, my ill-health gives me little heart or opportunity for it. 1717[see philosophical a. 3]. 1732Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 87 Ill health some just indulgence may engage. 1782F. Burney Cecilia iii. 32 The ill health of her uncle had hitherto prevented her. 1783Johnson Let. 22 Sept. (1892) II. 336 That I have not written sooner, you may impute to absence, to ill-health, to any thing rather than want of regard. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park I. ii. 38 Lady Bertram, in consequence of a little ill-health, and a great deal of indolence, gave up the house in town. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 63 Danby..under the plea of ill health..withdrew from court. 1911A. C. Benson Diary 31 Aug. (1926) 220 The pictures of her [sc. Mrs. Carlyle] in 1854..are hauntingly terrible—the mixture of ill-health and unhappiness very conspicuous. 1931J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? ii. 61 They have..rescued many people from ill-health. |