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- noun Plural form of
indisposition .
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Examples
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And yet, after all, this, and the affair of the small fish, were mere indispositions due to the foreignness of the food to my stomach, which had learned to prosper on seal meat and on nothing but seal meat.
Chapter 19 2010
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And yet, after all, this, and the affair of the small fish, were mere indispositions due to the foreignness of the food to my stomach, which had learned to prosper on seal meat and on nothing but seal meat.
Chapter 19 2010
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Unfortunately, the padre comisario's apostema returned, along with other "achaques e indisposiciones" ( "ailments and indispositions"), causing him several more months of agony. 94
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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American troops in Afghanistan labor under two indispositions which the Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine never held properly in view.
David Bromwich: One More War, Please David Bromwich 2010
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If the superfluities are few and of severe putrefaction, they are followed by fevers, mortal ulcers, rheumatic pains, gout, kidney stones, and mortal indispositions, which although not fatal make life a living death ....
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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American troops in Afghanistan labor under two indispositions which the Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine never held properly in view.
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He begins with the trivial and moves to more serious objections, first comparing the inconveniences of motherhood to such “monthly indispositions” as gout and the common cold.
The Snowbank 2009
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One day Granville, out of patience with these assumed indispositions, destroyed a note of invitation to a ball at the house of a Councillor of State, and gave his wife only a verbal invitation.
A Second Home 2007
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How much sloth and negligence, heat and passion, the prevalency of fashion or acquired indispositions do severally contribute, on occasion, to these wrong judgments, I shall not here further inquire.
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One day Granville, out of patience with these assumed indispositions, destroyed a note of invitation to a ball at the house of a Councillor of State, and gave his wife only a verbal invitation.
A Second Home 2007
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