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misease

American  
[mis-eez] / mɪsˈiz /

noun

  1. Archaic. discomfort; distress; suffering.

  2. Obsolete. poverty.


Etymology

Origin of misease

1150–1200; Middle English misese < Old French mesaise. See mis- 1, ease

Example Sentences

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There were they a while of time in great misease, and so long that the son of the Count was much sick, insomuch that the Count and Messire Thibault had fear of his dying.

From Old French Romances by Morris, William

No hand shall be raised against her, and she dies by misease; yet shall she not die in bed,” and the old woman nodded prophetically.

From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer

In this wise the maiden bewailed her lot, by reason of her great misease.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

But after a while Ralph said: "If it were no misease to thee to tell me how thou didst fall into the hands of the men of Utterbol, I were fain to hear the tale."

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

He called to his table such good knights as were in misease, by reason of prison or of war.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de