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Definition of greensick in English: greensickadjective ˈɡriːnsɪk archaic (of a person) affected with chlorosis. Example sentencesExamples - Moved to adoration by scatterbrained, widowed Lavinia Brandon's charm were the vicar, his greensick pupil and his middle-aged churchwarden.
Derivatives nounˈɡriːnsɪknəs archaic Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions. Example sentencesExamples - Gerard recommended watercress as a remedy for that now forgotten disease, ‘greensickness of maidens’.
- In ‘Old Mortality,’ it is Sophia Jane, the grandmother, who suffers from greensickness as a girl.
- The spas, also, were claimed to cure ‘dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, greensickness and other distempers not to be mentioned’.
- The only remedy for this greensickness in youth is abundant physical exercise, - action, work, and bodily occupation of any sort.
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