Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being qualmish; nausea.
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- noun The quality of being
qualmish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then is the time to sing 'The sea! the sea!' and to take some Monongahela to still the qualmishness you begin to experience.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
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Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness have altogether left you.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
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On first awaking, the female feels as well as usual, but on rising from her bed qualmishness begins and perhaps while in the act of dressing retching and vomiting takes place.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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In spite of a little feeling of qualmishness, which even his boasted disbelief in ghosts did not save him from, Mr. Henderson was about to spring upon the thing and solve the mystery.
Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder
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The cabin rocked and the boys, at least, felt a qualmishness in the pit of the stomach that forbade further eating.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
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The man looked like a patchwork of qualmishness, tribulation, and unctuous piety, and his coat collar was badly frayed.
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Not that he dreamed of the existence of my combine or of my connection with the new political deal, but simply because I had married into the Ramsay family and was therefore now in the Olympus of corporate power before which he was on his knees, -- for a price, like a wise devotee, untroubled by any such qualmishness as self-respect.
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"Sir," replied she, endeavouring to speak with as much dignity as her insecure position and her qualmishness would allow, "I am surprised at your asking me such a question and displaying levity when I feel as if I am dying, and we are all going down to the bottom -- stee-ured!"
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But I see no signs of qualmishness; they show to me rather a healthy sturdiness as one of their strongest characteristics.
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No faint-heartedness or sentimental qualmishness marked any of his official acts.
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