Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Quinsy.
- noun The quinsywort.
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- noun Alternative form of
squinance .
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Examples
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The Rabbins have a tradition, that the disease of the squinancy came into the world upon the account of tithes.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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He that had deserved strangling was either drowned in some river, or choked by a squinancy [angina]. "
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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