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soul-sick, a.
[f. soul n. 25.]
1. Of persons:
a. Suffering from spiritual indisposition or depression.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 759 Soule-sick Patients care not to be heal'd. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven (1831) 27 No doubt..they be shrewd signs that a man is extremely soul-sick and in a very dangerous case. 1641L. F. Index Ch. Codex (title-p.), A speedy Remedy and Speciall Spirituall Receipt for a Soul-Sicke Sainte and Sonne. 1903Dublin Rev. July 185 The masses made blind and soul-sick by materialism and agnosticism.
absol.1623H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 25 To the weake and soule-sicke, the still voice.
b. Sick at heart; deeply dejected or depressed.
1609Markham Famous Wh. (1868) 32 Soule-sick to see my goods and riches waste. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iv. i, I am soul-sick..Till I have got your pardon.
2. Characterized by dejection of spirit.
1880Swinburne Songs of Spring-t., Thalassius 30 Death spirit-stricken of soul-sick days. 1899Westm. Gaz. 27 June 3 A soul-sick longing comes over us for the silent heather hill.
So soul-sickness.
1662in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 187 Truly souch thowts cause soul-sickness. 1865Swinburne Chastelard v. ii. 191, I would have given you mine own blood to drink If that could heal you of your soul-sickness. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. viii, This is the sort of faith we live by in our soul-sicknesses. |