falling-sickness

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English

Noun

falling-sickness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of falling sickness

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes