Indisposition

Definitions

1. A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
   countable, uncountable
2. A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness.
   countable, uncountable
3. A bad mood or disposition.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.”

“She began not to understand⟳ a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse⟳ herself.”

“During those three hellish days at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee was badly suffering from a severe case of diarrhea after having eaten too many cherries, an indisposition—given his ill-considered and ultimately amateurishly fatal decision for the Confederacy to attack from the front (and relatively below) on July 3, 1863—that cost⟳ his army a victory that day, an incredible mismaneuver and unstrategic folly that became, as it turned out, the turning-point of the entire war that led to the full and final defeat⟳ of the South.”

“He argued that the progress⟳ of wealth could be impeded not only by an indisposition to produce⟳, but also by an indisposition to consume⟳ […]”

“1597, Francis Bacon, Essays Doth any man doubt⟳, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like⟳, but it would leave⟳ the minds, of a number⟳ of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

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