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ill-health en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of ill health.
   alt of ill health
   • "We know the cost in terms of ill-health to the sector is hundreds of millions of pounds a year. A healthy person is a more productive person," says Prosser. 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 35:
   • Continued ill-health has compelled Mr. D. H. Wakely to relinquish his duties as Honorary Publications Officer of the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. 1956 July, “Notes and News”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
   • There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District. 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:
   • Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable. 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 66, in The Way of All Flesh:
   • From about the time of her entering the family, Lady Bertram, in consequence of a little ill-health, and a great deal of indolence, gave up the house in town, which she had been used to occupy every spring, and remained wholly in the country, leaving Sir Thomas to attend his duty in Parliament, with whatever increase or diminution of comfort might arise from her absence. 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 38: