Definitions for sweating-sickness

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Sweating-Sickness is a 17 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1393 anagrams from letters in sweating-sickness (-aceegiiknnsssstw).

Definitions for sweating-sickness

noun

  1. a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.

Origin of sweating-sickness

First recorded in 1495-1505

Examples for sweating-sickness

Colet died of the sweating sickness on the 16th of September 1519.

Who would write of the sweating sickness with indignation, or describe zymotic diseases with resentment?

The disease was known as the English plague or the sweating sickness.

The sweating sickness prevailed in England alone at first, but at length sought foreign victims.

Whithersoever the winds wafted the stinking mists, the inhabitants became infested with the sweating sickness.

A few months before Bunyan had suffered from the sweating sickness.

Wit, lad, is a catching thing, like the itch or the sweating sickness.

Three sheriffs and three mayors this year by means of the sweating sickness, etc.

While he was undressing he remembered that there was a good anecdote in Skelton's jest-book about the sweating sickness.

On the 7th of July the sweating sickness broke out in London.

Word Value for sweating-sickness
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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