quinsy
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"I once had to lie in bed two days with a quinsy, and I hated it."
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- noun Acute inflammation of the tonsils and the surrounding tissue, often leading to the formation of an abscess.
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- Lord Keeper is suddenly taken ill of a quinsy, and some lords are commissioned, I think Lord Trevor, [17] to prorogue the Parliament in his stead. — The Journal to Stella
- The result was that the inflammation flew to the throat, and I had a quinsy which nearly carried me off. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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"I once had to lie in bed two days with a quinsy, and I hated it."
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories -
The hardest of all deaths is by quinsy, and the easiest is the Divine kiss (of which Moses, Aaron, and Miriam died).
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala -
Lord Keeper is suddenly taken ill of a quinsy, and some lords are commissioned, I think Lord Trevor, [17] to prorogue the
— The Journal to Stella
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- Middle English, from Medieval Latin quinancia and Old French quinancie, both from Greek kunankhē, dog quinsy, dog-collar : kuōn, kun-, dog; see kwon- in Indo-European roots + ankhein, to squeeze; see angh- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (kwĭnˈzē)/
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