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sicknesse

sicknesse 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 sicknesse

pluralsicknesses

Questions about sicknesse

What is sicknesse the obsolete spelling of?
Sicknesse is the obsolete spelling of sickness.

Words near sicknesse in the dictionary

  1. sickneses
  2. sickness
  3. sickness bag
  4. sickness bags
  5. sickness unto death
  6. sicknesse
  7. sicknesses
  8. sicknesses unto death
  9. Sicknick
  10. sicknik
  11. sickniks

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