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Definition
excessive worry about imaginary illnesses
- I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding.Chapter 25 (24% in)
- This is hypochondria, Jane.Chapter 25 (42% in)
- I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.Chapter 27 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "hypochondria" in Jane Eyre.
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