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Malady   /mˈælədi/   Listen
noun
malady  n.  (pl. maladies)  
1.
Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. "The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind."
2.
A moral or mental defect or disorder. "Love's a malady without a cure."
Synonyms: Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See Disease.






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"Malady" Quotes from Famous Books



... are saving. It has been used before, when it was necessary to save the Union and to render anti-slavery sentiment odious. The weak and designing, and all who wait for the war to achieve a constitutional recurrence of our national malady, will use it again to defeat the great act of justice and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various

... years older than my child—but that is nothing. Did you say you did not think her looks this morning indicated any symptoms? Oh—no! I recollect. You never saw the malady at work. Well, certainly she does not cough as her poor mother did. Did it look like languor, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

... death. In vain they sought that marvellous tree which had relieved the followers of Cartier. Their little cemetery was peopled with nearly half their number, and the rest, bloated and disfigured with the relentless malady, thought more of escaping from their woes than of building up a Transatlantic empire. Yet among them there was one, at least, who, amid languor and defection, held to his purpose with indomitable tenacity; and where Champlain was present, there was ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... youth by an abominable moral malady, I relate what has happened to me during three years. If I were the only victim of this disease, I would say nothing, but as there are many others who suffer from the same evil, I write for them, although I am not sure that they will pay any attention to it; ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset

... malady for another, for he became attached to Miss Nugent, the daughter of his physician, and in a very little time formed what, in a worldly point of view, would be considered an imprudent marriage, but which secured the happiness of his ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various


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