illsome

English

Etymology

From ill +‎ -some.

Adjective

illsome (comparative more illsome, superlative most illsome)

  1. Characterised by ill or illness
    • 1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight - Volume 1:
      Some illsome swain / Doth plant the prickly thorn amid Love's bloom, / To sorrow turned!
    • 1895, William Theodore Parkes, The Spook Ballads:
      "[...] O Doctor Tommins forgive! the cost and the foul disgrace, Of debt, for the illsome guilt, of the most remarkable case, O Doctor Tommins have grace!"

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