malady
pronunciation
How to pronounce malady in British English:
UK [ˈmælədi]
How to pronounce malady in American English:
US [ˈmælədi]
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- Noun:
- any unwholesome or desperate condition
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Word Origin
- malady
- malady: see malign
- malady (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French maladie "sickness, illness, disease" (13c.), from malade "ill" (12c.), from Latin male habitus "doing poorly, feeling sick," literally "ill-conditioned," from male "badly" (see mal-) + habitus, past participle of habere "have, hold" (see habit (n.)). Related: Maladies.
Example
- 1. And in the case of at least one malady , irritable-bowel syndrome , they are right .
- 2. Gullible and desperate believers , who consider their pastors to be " little gods " , will pay good money for them to cure this malady .
- 3. It is alan bennett , and his " the madness of king george " , who is to blame for the image of george iii as a cartoon of inherited malady , all purple urine and verbal spasm .
- 4. His friends discovered the mental malady preying upon him , and determined that the best cure was a change of scene ; he was sent , therefore , to finish his studies amidst the splendors and gayeties of paris .
- 5. And the malady may take many years to cure .