calenture
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Origin of calenture
1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent ( ar ) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure
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That the man who had promised to marry her, had exhausted the vocabulary of love for her, should thus cast her off, struck her into a frantic calenture which, for a season, threatened her existence.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March
The fervency of his resolve not to leave England called up as in a calenture the lands that he was not to travel, the freedom that was not to be his.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May
He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
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