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English
Etymology
From ill + -some.
Adjective
illsome (comparative more illsome, superlative most illsome)
- Characterised by ill or illness
1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight - Volume 1:Some illsome swain / Doth plant the prickly thorn amid Love's bloom, / To sorrow turned!
1895, William Theodore Parkes, The Spook Ballads:"[...] 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!"
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