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Definition

illness or other bad condition

A suspicious malady, no apparent Westing connection, somehow Sydelle Pulaski did not seem to fit in.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

malady = illness

When she sticks out her tongue and allows me to treat her small maladies, I can see that every one of her organs has been compromised in some way.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
—but had she then grown taller since her malady?
Edgar Allan Poe -- Ligeia
He seemed to be sleeping, though his position was an elevated one, his malady preventing him lying down.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
There is another question, pertinent to the former, and that is, What remedy can we apply to this malady?
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
Are these the usual changes of your malady, madame?'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
"Why do you not cure this malady with magic?" a Hajin boy asks.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
This was the body: fallible, subject to malady.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
I would e'en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The course of the malady had been terribly swift in the three years.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
They are both in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Of course, most maladies in most short stories, or even novels, are not quite so productive of meaning.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Maladies considered mild at home continued to reduce our numbers.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The malady itself, one from which she had often suffered, a bilious fever—its cause therefore constitutional.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
She moved with difficulty—I think she was lame—I seem to remember some story about a malady of the spine.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
Her bout with the malady was short, however.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
And so, by the chemical process of his malady, after he had created jealousy out of his love, he began again to generate tenderness, pity for Odette.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
The terrible name of his malady was never uttered save by him.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
And how have you contrived to escape those widespread maladies?
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
Once my modifications are complete, the Whisperer will become a wondrous healing device, boys — a device capable of curing maladies of the mind.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society

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