falling sickness

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noun

epilepsy.

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Origin of falling sickness

First recorded in 1520–30

Words nearby falling sickness

falling door, falling down drunk, falling of womb, falling-out, falling rhythm, falling sickness, falling star, falling tide, falling weather, fall in line, fall in love

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How to use falling sickness in a sentence

The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.
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We also see her physically battling Sheriff Clark, but the camera focuses on her falling to the ground.
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You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.
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The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
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Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?
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It will be no more monotonous than having one's seventh birthday or falling in love for the first time.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
For who, while tears are falling, will pause to handle the wreaths, and find whether they are genuine?
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
The falling dew, and the howling wind raised him not from that bed of lonely despair.
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During his mild régime the insurrection increased rapidly, and in one encounter he himself was very near falling a prisoner.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.
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British Dictionary definitions for falling sickness

falling sickness

falling evil

noun

a former name (nontechnical) for epilepsy

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