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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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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

Launfal lay in great misease, because of his heavy thoughts, and the discomfort of his bed.

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

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

We die, sire, of famine and of all misease.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

And they went on, all an-ned as they were, till they came to where Geoffry, the Marshal of Champagne, was keeping guard in the rear, in very great anxiety and misease.

From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de