ill-being

American  

[il-bee-ing] / ˈɪlˈbi ɪŋ /

noun

1. state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of ill-being

First recorded in 1830–40; modeled on well-being

Example Sentences

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ill-being

Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Confucius was essentially a social and political reformer, who taught by example and precept; the main inducement to virtue being, not rewards or penalties in the after-life, but well- or ill-being in the present.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

For instance what on earth had possessed me to take such an interest in the well-being or ill-being of Major Sewin and his family?

From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

It must be either admitted or denied that the acts called good and the acts called bad naturally conduce, the one to human well-being and the other to human ill-being.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

For most of his life he is probably aware of a vague well-being; then of a longer or shorter—often a very short—spell of vague ill-being; and so, the end.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William