单词 | malade imaginaire |
释义 | malade imaginairen. A person given to imagining or exaggerating the significance of symptoms of illness; a hypochondriac. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > imaginary malade imaginaire1724 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 250 Nothing can be so ridiculous as the simple Steps we take in such Cases; a Man or a Woman becomes a meer Malade Imaginaire, and I believe, may as easily die with Grief, or run mad with Joy..as if all was real. 1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy IV. v. 202 I trust you will not think I am playing the Malade Imaginaire, when I assign indisposition as an excuse for my absence. 1888 Athenæum 15 Dec. 811/1 A malade imaginaire..who sacrifices her daughter to her own comfort. 1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. xxviii Doctors..nurse the delusions of the malade imaginaire. 1958 M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting v. 60 Enough pills and boluses to satisfy the most highly-strung malade imaginaire. 1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo ii. 80 He's..inclined to worry about his health. If you mean do I think him a malade imaginaire, no I don't. 1987 I. Murdoch Bk. & Brotherhood iii. 471 Laura Curtland, so long a malade imaginaire, had vindicated her status by suddenly dying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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