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Meaning of Sickliness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.

uncountable, usually

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Examples

“I do beseech your majesty, impute his words To wayward sickliness and age in him.”
“Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.”
“My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness, and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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