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English
Noun
sicknesse (countable and uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- Obsolete spelling of sickness.
1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:I wil vſe ſome motiues to perſwade all that find themſelues afſeted with this ſickneſſe, to deſire with all earneſtneſſe that they may be cured, that ſo they may be made willing alſo to apply the remedies.