noun
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An instance of a disease or poor health.
example
Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
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A state of bad health or disease.
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Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Examples of illness in a Sentence
There is serious illness in her family.
How has his whole illness gone?
She was terrified by his illness, and yet that was just what she needed.
Avicenna, however, remained hidden for forty days in a sheik's house, till a fresh attack of illness induced the amir to restore him to his post.
In 1880 he went to Milan for the inauguration of the Mentana monument, and in 1882 visited Naples and Palermo, but was prevented by illness from being present at the 600th anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers.
He died after a few days' illness on the 25th of September 1617 at Lisbon.
No particulars are known of his last illness, but it seems likely that death came upon him rather suddenly at,last.
His first appointment was that of physician to the amir, who owed him his recovery from a dangerous illness (997).
Her fatal illness developed in the autumn of the following year, and she died on the 28th of November 1780.
There is something very characteristic in the exclamation he is said to have uttered in his last illness, "An emperor ought to die standing."
He died in Philadelphia on the 19th of April 1813, after a five days' illness from typhus fever.
It was her fever dream without the heaviness of illness to blur it.
Proposing to seek his fortune abroad, he went on foot to Nantes, but was there prostrated by an illness so severe that all thoughts of emigration were perforce abandoned.
He was overtaken by a dangerous illness, and on the 2nd of March civil war in support of the king broke out.
He retained through life his early love of song, and during his last illness he passed much of his time in singing.
She nursed him assiduously during an illness he had in 1765, and from that period till her death in 1776 they lived in the same house without any scandal.
In his last illness he wrote to express his confidence in their loyalty.
He died after a long illness on the 30th of April 1910.
The symptoms of Natasha's illness were that she ate little, slept little, coughed, and was always low-spirited.
Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either.
With Andre's help, he might gain some insight into Deidre's illness and be able to counter the demons tracking and stealing souls.
He died after a protracted illness at Israelsdorf, near Lubeck, on the 21st of May 1894.
Soon after he was seized by an illness which terminated his active career, 319.
He knew that she had not sung since her illness, and so the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him.
After twice failing in the attempt to gain a professorship in the university, he was invited, during an illness of Dugald Stewart in the session of 1808-1809, to act as his substitute, and during the following session he undertook a great part of Stewart's work.
He died, after a short illness, in Paris on the 12th of March 1853.
On the 12th of October 1892 he died after a few days' illness.
The product should also be relevant to the disability or chronic illness.
I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house consisting of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept.
Mrs. Keller writes me that before her illness Helen made signs for everything, and her mother thought this habit the cause of her slowness in learning to speak.
After the illness, when they were dependent on signs, Helen's tendency to gesture developed.
Illness or not, he'd better not cwoss my path.
Before the beginning of the campaign, Rostov had received a letter from his parents in which they told him briefly of Natasha's illness and the breaking off of her engagement to Prince Andrew (which they explained by Natasha's having rejected him) and again asked Nicholas to retire from the army and return home.
It influenced how I handled your illness.
Avicenna himself was at this season stricken down by a severe illness.
In this campaign Aurelius, after a series of successes, was attacked, according to some authorities, by an infectious disease, of which he died after a seven days' illness, either in his camp at Sirmium (Mitrovitz), on the Save, in Lower Pannonia, or at Vindobona (Vienna), on the 17th of March 180, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.
Dispensations from fasting were, however, given in case of illness.
On the 7th of October he was dangerously wounded, and the queen showed her anxiety for his safety by riding 40 miles to visit him, incurring a severe illness.
Her former lover, the earl of Northumberland, left the court seized with sudden illness.
Thence she travelled to Vienna, where, in April, the news of her father's dangerous illness and shortly of his death (April 8) reached her.
He planned a vast amount of work, but his schemes were all frustrated in January 1884 by the most serious illness from which he had yet suffered.
Neither the serious illness of the empress, which began with a fainting-fit at Tsarskoe Selo (September 19, 1757), nor the fall of Bestuzhev (February 21, 1758), nor the cabals and intrigues of the various foreign powers at St Petersburg,.
An attack of illness in November 1900 seriously impaired his health.
His illness became critical on the 10th of April, and he died on the 2 2nd.
Once prime minister, his personal popularity proved to be a powerful unifying influence in a somewhat heterogeneous party; and though the illness and death (August 30, 1906) of his wife (daughter of General Sir Charles Bruce), whom he had married in 1860, made his constant attendance in the House of Commons impossible, his domestic sorrow excited widespread sympathy and appealed afresh to the affection of his political followers.
He had spoken in the House of Commons on the 13th of February, but since then had been prostrated and unable to transact business, his illness dating really from a serious heart attack in the night of the 13th of November at Bristol, after a speech at the Colston banquet.
In October 1863, while he was still in minor orders, he went out as a missionary to the Pacific Islands, taking the place of his brother, who had been prevented by an illness.
Among other events which made the streets gay and centred in processions to St Paul's may be specially mentioned the Thanksgiving Day on the 27th of February 1872 for the recovery of the prince of Wales after his dangerous illness; and the rejoicings at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, and the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
In his fifteenth year, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church.
During an illness, which kept him virtuous by confining him to his room, he studied French and English, gaining a mastery of these languages which, at that time exceedingly rare, opened up for him opportunities for a diplomatic career.