Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
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- noun The state of being
diseased ;sickness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the same matter, but its being is different, as that which is receptive of disease is the same as that which is receptive of health, though in being different from it, and therefore diseasedness is different from healthiness.
On the Heavens 2002
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To judge by the madness and diseasedness both of itself, and of the soil and element it is in, one might expect the rapidity and monstrosity would be extreme.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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