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sickliness|ˈsɪklɪnɪs|
[f. sickly a. + -ness.]
The state or fact of being sickly; delicacy of constitution, ill-health.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Infirma valetudo, sickelinesse. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 142, I do beseech your Maiestie impute his words To wayward sicklinesse, and age in him. 1633G. Herbert Priest to the Temple x, Not only sickness breaks these obligations of fasting, but sickliness also. 1697Dryden Virg. Life (1721) I. 60 His Sickliness, Studies, and the Troubles he met with, turn'd his Hair gray before the usual time. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 471 The inclemency of the season, the sickliness of his army,..and a scarcity of provisions. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 85 Manifesting a considerable degree of sickliness in all their functions. 1896A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life I. 109 [It] had much to do with accounting for my after sickliness.
b. transf. and fig.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. lxx. (1674) 223 That action..proceeding..from sickliness of mind, as a lover of novelties. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets viii. (1870) 201 His Irish melodies are not free from affectation and a certain sickliness of pretention. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma I. 90 The sickliness of the shore, seems little to affect children. |