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sicknes

sicknes is the obsolete spelling of sickness.

Meaning of sickness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (usually) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. (usually) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
    • We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic

Forms of sicknes

pluralsickneses

Questions about sicknes

What is sicknes the obsolete spelling of?
Sicknes is the obsolete spelling of sickness.

Words near sicknes in the dictionary

  1. sickly sweet
  2. sickly-sweet
  3. sicklying
  4. sickman
  5. sickmen
  6. sicknes
  7. sickneses
  8. sickness
  9. sickness bag
  10. sickness bags
  11. sickness unto death

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