death-sicknessn.

Brit.

/ˈdɛθsɪknᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈdɛθˌsɪknᵻs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., sickness n.

Etymology: < death n. + sickness n. Compare earlier death-sick adj.

A mortal illness; deadly disease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > cause of death > [noun] > fatal illness

death-sickness1661

1661 Petit. E. Chaloner in 7th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1879) 147 During his imprisonment..he took his death sickness.

1741 T. Wotton Eng. Baronetage II. 147 His father lying at that time ill of his death sickness.

1846 H. E. Manning Serm. (ed. 2) II. ii. 33 After the partial cure of a death-sickness.

1899 ‘F. Macleod’ Dominion of Dreams i. 59 They found her, lying on the deerskin on the hearth, and she with the death-sickness on her, and grave-white, because of the poison there beside her.

1961 F. J. Ziadeh tr. S. Mahmassani Falsafat Al-tashrī Fī Al-Islām ii. ix. 53 The theory of acts of God, death-sickness (rules governing a person's right to dispose of property on his death-bed), [etc.].

2011 E. Moon Kings of North iii. 33 Dorrin explained what she suspected about the parentage of at least some of the children who had suffered the death-sickness and ‘recovered’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	death-sickness
释义	death-sicknessn. Brit. /ˈdɛθsɪknᵻs/, U.S. /ˈdɛθˌsɪknᵻs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., sickness n. Etymology: < death n. + sickness n. Compare earlier death-sick adj. A mortal illness; deadly disease. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [noun] > fatal illness death-sickness1661 1661 Petit. E. Chaloner in 7th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1879) 147 During his imprisonment..he took his death sickness. 1741 T. Wotton Eng. Baronetage II. 147 His father lying at that time ill of his death sickness. 1846 H. E. Manning Serm. (ed. 2) II. ii. 33 After the partial cure of a death-sickness. 1899 ‘F. Macleod’ Dominion of Dreams i. 59 They found her, lying on the deerskin on the hearth, and she with the death-sickness on her, and grave-white, because of the poison there beside her. 1961 F. J. Ziadeh tr. S. Mahmassani Falsafat Al-tashrī Fī Al-Islām ii. ix. 53 The theory of acts of God, death-sickness (rules governing a person's right to dispose of property on his death-bed), [etc.]. 2011 E. Moon Kings of North iii. 33 Dorrin explained what she suspected about the parentage of at least some of the children who had suffered the death-sickness and ‘recovered’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661
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