diseasefulness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
diseaseful + -ness
Noun[edit]
diseasefulness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- But as before the consideration of a prison had disgraced all ornaments, so now the same consideration made them attend all diseasefulness
- 1973, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 264, page 689:
- "The diseasefulness is terrific," said the dusky Nabob.
- 1995, Bela Bhattacharya, Facets of Early Buddhism: A Study of Fundamental Principles, page 135:
- The evil effects of killing are short life, diseasefulness etc.