rheumatism
noun
any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
rheumatisms
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pluralof rheumatism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was good for sprains and for internal pains of all kinds, as well as for the so-called chronic rheumatisms, which have as their principal symptom pains and aches around joints.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Rickets in infancy, convulsions in childhood, or premature rheumatisms, have brought the nations of history to untimely deaths.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is a terrible potency, robbing us of half our lives, and threatening or desolating the moiety left us with rheumatisms and catarrhs.
From Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells
Your dowagers, too, every one, So generous are, when they call him in, That he might now retire upon The rheumatisms of three old women.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
She generally poured into my cars a wail about her "rheumatisms", and "How long it do be waiting for the Lord"; but today she was too curious about Harold to think of herself.
From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
