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Ill-being   /ɪl-bˈiɪŋ/   Listen
Ill-being

noun
1.
Lack of prosperity or happiness or health.





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"Ill-being" Quotes from Famous Books



... now have welcomed any bodily suffering that could hide me from myself; but no illness came. I was a living pain, a conscious ill-being. In a thousand forms those questions would ever recur, but without hope of answer. When I fell asleep from exhaustion, hideous visions of her with Geoffrey would start me up with a great cry, sometimes with a curse on my lips. Nor were they the most horrible of those dreams ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... well-being of one hundred and thirty million Americans is deeply affected by the well-being or the ill-being of the populations of other nations is only to recognize in world affairs the truth that we all ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... children in various cities in England and America has revealed a state of physical ill-being most deplorable in the present, and horrifying to contemplate for its future results. One has only to keep one's eyes open in passing the streets to become aware of the physical deterioration of thousands of the wage-earners. One has only to ...
— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards


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