invalidism
English
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English invalid
English invalidism
Noun
invalidism (countable and uncountable, plural invalidisms)
- The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
- 1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:
- After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “invalidism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “invalidism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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- English terms suffixed with -ism
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *né
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (rule)
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