Meaning of gout-ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Suffering from or affected by gout.

Examples

“1909, Maud Margaret Key Stawell (as “Mrs. Rodolph Stawell”) (translator), The Return⟳ of Louis XVIII by Gilbert Stenger, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 2, p. 67, Could anyone have⟳ imagined that the day would come⟳ when this prince, whose gout-ridden feet could only move⟳ in spasms, would in his turn⟳ be acclaimed in Paris as though he too were a conqueror?”

“Oh, how I have⟳ been deceived! For years I have⟳ worshiped that miserable gout-ridden professor.”

“Judith Herries, sister to Raiseley and first cousin to David, had, many years before, bewildered into matrimony the Honourable Ernest Bligh, who in his gout-ridden and exceedingly ill-tempered old age had become⟳ Lord Monyngham, then Viscount Rockage.”

“c. 1945-1950, Jack Spicer, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape” in Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (editors), My Vocabulary Did This to Me, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press⟳, 2008, Gout-ridden angel, out of these terrors, Out of the mind’s infidelity and the heart’s horror Deliver⟳ my natural body.”

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