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- noun The state or quality of being
bedridden .
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Examples
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My old grandmother laments her bedriddenness, because, she says, she cannot go to cheer on the people against the enemy.
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My old grandmother laments her bedriddenness, because, she says, she cannot go to cheer on the people against the enemy.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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