malaise

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Perhaps the reason for this malaise is the fact that over the past four decades Catholic popular trends moved towards making all of our external signs and symbols … quite frankly generically Catholic neutral.

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  1. noun A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness.
  2. noun A general sense of depression or unease: "One year after the crash, the markets remain mired in a deep malaise” (New York Times).

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  • Perhaps the reason for this malaise is the fact that over the past four decades Catholic popular trends moved towards making all of our external signs and symbols … quite frankly generically Catholic neutral. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • The cause of this malaise was a lethargic Legislature, where indolence cost less than mediocrity. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • I believe there must be a physical cause for my malaise, and that I am going to have some dreadful illness, and perhaps lay my bones here in the shadow of the mosques among the sons of Islam. —  The Call of the Blood
  • Applied to the back and legs especially, it is a sovereign soother for both the opium-eater's acute pain and that malaise which is only less terrible. —  The Opium Habit
  • (I hate that word malaise - but unfortunately it's appropriate). —  Emes Ve-Emunah
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  1. French, from Old French : mal-, mal- + aise, ease; see ease.

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  1. from French malaise, uneasiness, discomfort: see malease.
 

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