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illsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From ill + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by ill or illness
   • "[...] O Doctor Tommins forgive! the cost and the foul disgrace, Of debt, for the illsome guilt, of the most remarkable case, O Doctor Tommins have grace!" 1895, William Theodore Parkes, The Spook Ballads:
   • Some illsome swain / Doth plant the prickly thorn amid Love's bloom, / To sorrow turned! 1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight - Volume 1:

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