illness

Definitions

1. 1.Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
2. 2.Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. Shak. -- Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or "sickness of the stomach."

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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